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title: Therefore she received the name of Sihamba Ngenyanga (the walker by… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore she received the name of Sihamba Ngenyanga (the walker by moonlight). Who acts: Tangalimlibo. 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 35

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Therefore she received the name of Sihamba Ngenyanga (the walker by moonlight).

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**Who acts:** Tangalimlibo · **What happens:** receive, name · **To what, where:** name, Sihamba

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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), 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:pg71335:6:35
# text = Therefore she received the name of Sihamba Ngenyanga (the walker by moonlight).
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Sihamba	Sihamba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	Ngenyanga	Ngenyanga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	walker	walker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	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 | **receive** | past | Tangalimlibo | the name of Sihamba |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 2 | **name** |  |  | Sihamba |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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