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title: Then he sent some of his men with forty cattle to take his daughter… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he sent some of his men with forty cattle to take his daughter to a distant country, where she was to remain far away from him. Who acts: chief, daughter. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., with its dependency tree
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 25

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Then he sent some of his men with forty cattle to take his daughter to a distant country, where she was to remain far away from him.

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**Who acts:** chief, daughter · **What happens:** send, take, be · **To what, where:** some, daughter, distant country

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief, daughter), 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:pg71335:7:25
# text = Then he sent some of his men with forty cattle to take his daughter to a distant country, where she was to remain far away from him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
25	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | chief | some of chief's men |  |  | then | with forty cattle | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | chief *not said here* | chief's daughter |  | a distant country |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to country=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | daughter |  |  |  |  | away, remain *property* | 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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