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title: “You must make much beer, and invite many people to come and rejoice… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: “You must make much beer, and invite many people to come and rejoice with me over this that has happened.” Who acts: You, many people, this. 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 20

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“You must make much beer, and invite many people to come and rejoice with me over this that has happened.”

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**Who acts:** You, many people, this · **What happens:** make, invite, come, rejoice, happen · **To what, where:** much beer, many people

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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, many people, this), 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:pg71335:6:20
# text = “You must make much beer, and invite many people to come and rejoice with me over this that has happened.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	beer	beer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	invite	invite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	rejoice	rejoice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | must | You | much beer |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Product |
| 2 | **invite** *in a quote* | infinitive | You *not said here* | many people |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | many people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **rejoice** *in a quote* | infinitive | many people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the man *= man* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **happen** *in a quote* | present · perfect | this |  |  |  |  | that *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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