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title: She went alone, no bridal party accompanying her, to present herself… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: She went alone, no bridal party accompanying her, to present herself at the village of the chief who wanted a wife. Who acts: girl, bridal party, chief. 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 19

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She went alone, no bridal party accompanying her, to present herself at the village of the chief who wanted a wife.

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**Who acts:** girl, bridal party, chief · **What happens:** go, accompany, present, want · **To what, where:** bridal party, girl, village, wife

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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 (girl, bridal party, chief), 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:pg71335:5:19
# text = She went alone, no bridal party accompanying her, to present herself at the village of the chief who wanted a wife.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
6	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	accompanying	accompany	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	present	present	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | girl | no bridal party |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **accompany** | gerund | no bridal party *not said here* | girl |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **present** | to-infinitive |  | girl |  | the village of the chief |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
| 4 | **want** | past | the chief | a wife |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wife=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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