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title: Tangalimlibo is dead—Cock-a-doodle-doo! — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Tangalimlibo is dead—Cock-a-doodle-doo! Who acts: Tangalimlibo, 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 127

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Tangalimlibo is dead—Cock-a-doodle-doo!

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**Who acts:** Tangalimlibo, Cock · **What happens:** be, 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 (Tangalimlibo, 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:pg71335:6:127
# text = Tangalimlibo is dead—Cock-a-doodle-doo!
1	Tangalimlibo	Tangalimlibo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	doodle	doodle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	doo	doo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Tangalimlibo |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **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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