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title: The man said: “At that village which I visited, the chief wishes for… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The man said: “At that village which I visited, the chief wishes for a wife; you, my daughter, shall go.” Who acts: man, you. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 10

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The man said: “At that village which I visited, the chief wishes for a wife; you, my daughter, shall go.”

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**Who acts:** man, you · **What happens:** say, visit, go · **To what, where:** village · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, you), 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:pg71335:5:10
# text = The man said: “At that village which I visited, the chief wishes for a wife; you, my daughter, shall go.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	At	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the man |  |  |  |  | that village and the chief wishes for a wife *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **visit** *in a quote* | past | the man *= man* | that village and the chief wishes for a wife |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | shall | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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