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title: Then the children entered the house and made a large fire, and began… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the children entered the house and made a large fire, and began to roast some wild roots which they dug out of the ground. Who acts: children, wild roots. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II., sentence 75

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Then the children entered the house and made a large fire, and began to roast some wild roots which they dug out of the ground.

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**Who acts:** children, wild roots · **What happens:** enter, make, begin, roast, dig out · **To what, where:** house, large fire, wild roots, ground

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of the Bird That Made Milk. II.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, wild roots), 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:pg71335:4:75
# text = Then the children entered the house and made a large fire, and began to roast some wild roots which they dug out of the ground.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	roast	roast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | the children | the house |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | past | the children *not said here* | a large fire |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **roast** | to-infinitive | the children *not said here* | some wild roots |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent root=Patient |
| 5 | **dig out** | past | some wild roots | the ground |  |  |  | children *= child* *nsubj* | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ground=Theme |

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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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