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title: “I am a cock that ought not to be killed—Cock-a-doodle-doo! — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am a cock that ought not to be killed—Cock-a-doodle-doo! Who acts: cock. 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 113

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“I am a cock that ought not to be killed—Cock-a-doodle-doo!

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**Who acts:** cock · **What happens:** be, not kill, doo · **To what, where:** cock

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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 (cock), 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:pg71335:6:113
# text = “I am a cock that ought not to be killed—Cock-a-doodle-doo!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
7	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	doodle	doodle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	doo	doo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the cock *= cock* | a cock and a doodle doo |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **kill** *in a quote* | ought · passive |  | a cock and a doodle doo |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **doo** *in a quote* |  | Cock |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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