--- title: The Story of Demane and Demazana. — Kaffir folk-lore · full text with trees description: The Story of Demane and Demazana., «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Among the natives of South Africa relationship is viewed differently from what it is by Europeans. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/34/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Kaffir folk-lore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/) / The Story of Demane and Demazana. # The Story of Demane and Demazana. The Story of Demane and Demazana. of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal: the whole text, 22 sentences and 411 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. Among the natives of South Africa relationship is viewed differently from what it is by Europeans.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") I have more than once heard Kaffirs accused of falsehood because they asserted one person to be their father or mother at one time and a different person at another time.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") Yet they were telling the truth according to their ideas.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") A common complaint concerning native servant girls is that they claim every other person they meet as a brother or a sister.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") Now, from their point of view, what we should term cousins are really brothers and sisters.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") It is not poverty of language, for they have words to express shades of relationship where we have none, but a difference of ideas, that causes them to use the same word for father and paternal uncle, for brother and cousin, etc. Bawo is the word used in addressing father, father’s brother, or father’s half-brother.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") Little children say Tata.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") But there are three different words for father, according as a person is speaking of his own father or uncle, of the father or uncle of the person he is speaking to, or of the father or uncle of the person he is speaking of.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") Speaking of my father, bawo is the word used: of your father, uyihlo; of his father, uyise.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") Malume is the brother of any one called mother.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") Ma is the word used in addressing mother, any wife of father, or the sister of any of these.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") The one we should term mother can only be distinguished from the others, when speaking of her, by describing her as uma wam kanye—i.e., my real mother; or uma ondizalayo—i.e., the mother who bore me.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") Speaking of my mother, ma is the word used: of your mother, unyoko; of his or her mother, unina.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") A paternal aunt is addressed as dadebobawo—i.e., sister of my father.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") Mnakwetu is the word used by females in addressing a brother, half-brother, or male cousin.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") Males, when addressing any of these relations older than themselves, use the word mkuluwa; and when addressing one younger than themselves say mninawe.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") Dade is used in addressing a sister, a half-sister, or a female cousin.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") Females, when speaking to any of these relations younger than themselves, usually say msakwetu.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") Mtakama is an endearing form of expression, meaning child of my mother.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") Bawomkulu is the address of a grandfather.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") Makulu is grandmother.[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") Mtshana is the son of a sister.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [The Story of Hlakanyana.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/33/) - next →: [The Runaway Children.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/35/) - ↑ back to [Kaffir folk-lore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg71335/)