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title: Mnakwetu is the word used by females in addressing a brother, half-b… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Mnakwetu is the word used by females in addressing a brother, half-brother, or male cousin. Who acts: Mnakwetu. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Demane and Demazana., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Demane and Demazana., sentence 15

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Mnakwetu is the word used by females in addressing a brother, half-brother, or male cousin.

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**Who acts:** Mnakwetu · **What happens:** be, use, address · **To what, where:** word, brother

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Demane and Demazana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mnakwetu), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg71335:34:15
# text = Mnakwetu is the word used by females in addressing a brother, half-brother, or male cousin.
1	Mnakwetu	Mnakwetu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	addressing	address	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	male	male	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Mnakwetu | the word or male cousin |  |  |  | male cousin *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | the word or male cousin *not said here* |  |  |  | by females | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **address** | gerund |  |  | a brother and half brother |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Destination |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Project Gutenberg book 71335 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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