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title: The frog said: “Go on then; you will see afterwards what will happen.” — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The frog said: “Go on then; you will see afterwards what will happen.” Who acts: frog, 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 27

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The frog said: “Go on then; you will see afterwards what will happen.”

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**Who acts:** frog, you · **What happens:** say, go, see, happen · **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 (frog, 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:pg71335:5:27
# text = The frog said: “Go on then; you will see afterwards what will happen.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	frog	frog	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	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	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 frog |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on then=Location |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **happen** *in a quote* | future |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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