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title: The man went always to the house of the other wife, and so it happen… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The man went always to the house of the other wife, and so it happened that Tangalimlibo was grown to be a young woman when her father first saw her. Who acts: man, it, young woman, father. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo., with its dependency tree 
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 14

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The man went always to the house of the other wife, and so it happened that Tangalimlibo was grown to be a young woman when her father first saw her.

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**Who acts:** man, it, young woman, father · **What happens:** go, happen, grow, be, see · **To what, where:** house, Tangalimlibo, young woman

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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 (man, it, young woman, father), 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:pg71335:6:14
# text = The man went always to the house of the other wife, and so it happened that Tangalimlibo was grown to be a young woman when her father first saw her.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	Tangalimlibo	Tangalimlibo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:agent	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	30	advmod	_	_
30	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the man |  |  | the house of the other wife |  | always *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | past · passive | a young woman | Tangalimlibo |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a young woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | past | Tangalimlibo's father | Tangalimlibo |  |  |  | first *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |

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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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