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title: “Will you, my ox, take this message to the father and mother of Tang… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: “Will you, my ox, take this message to the father and mother of Tangalimlibo?” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 103

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“Will you, my ox, take this message to the father and mother of Tangalimlibo?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take · **To what, where:** message, father

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg71335:6:103
# text = “Will you, my ox, take this message to the father and mother of Tangalimlibo?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Tangalimlibo	Tangalimlibo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** *in a quote* | future | you | this message | the father and mother of Tangalimlibo |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to father=Destination |

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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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