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title: Afterwards Makanda Mahlanu became a man, and Mpunzanyana continued t… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Afterwards Makanda Mahlanu became a man, and Mpunzanyana continued to be the wife he loved best. Who acts: Makanda, Mpunzanyana. 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 110

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Afterwards Makanda Mahlanu became a man, and Mpunzanyana continued to be the wife he loved best.

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**Who acts:** Makanda, Mpunzanyana · **What happens:** become, continue, be, love · **To what, where:** man, wife, best

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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 (Makanda, Mpunzanyana), 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:pg71335:5:110
# text = Afterwards Makanda Mahlanu became a man, and Mpunzanyana continued to be the wife he loved best.
1	Afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	Makanda	Makanda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Mahlanu	Mahlanu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	Mpunzanyana	Mpunzanyana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Makanda | a man |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **continue** | past | Mpunzanyana |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | Mpunzanyana *not said here* | the wife |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **love** | past | Makanda | best |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer good=Stimulus |

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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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