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title: I have come to intimate about Tangalimlibo—Cock-a-doodle-doo! — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: I have come to intimate about Tangalimlibo—Cock-a-doodle-doo! Who acts: I, 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 114

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I have come to intimate about Tangalimlibo—Cock-a-doodle-doo!

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**Who acts:** I, Cock · **What happens:** come, intimate, doo

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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 (I, 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:pg71335:6:114
# text = I have come to intimate about Tangalimlibo—Cock-a-doodle-doo!
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	intimate	intimate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Tangalimlibo	Tangalimlibo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	doodle	doodle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	doo	doo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **come** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **intimate** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about Tangalimlibo | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **doo** |  | 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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