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title: She said: “My mother’s Simbukumbukwana, have legs and arms” (Simbuku… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: She said: “My mother’s Simbukumbukwana, have legs and arms” (Simbukumbukwana sikama, yiba nemilenze nemikono). Who acts: voice. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 25

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She said: “My mother’s Simbukumbukwana, have legs and arms” (Simbukumbukwana sikama, yiba nemilenze nemikono).

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**Who acts:** voice · **What happens:** say, have · **To what, where:** legs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Simbukumbukwana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice), 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:pg71335:8:25
# text = She said: “My mother’s Simbukumbukwana, have legs and arms” (Simbukumbukwana sikama, yiba nemilenze nemikono).
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	Simbukumbukwana	Simbukumbukwana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
11	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Simbukumbukwana	Simbukumbukwana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	sikama	sikama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	yiba	yiba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	nemilenze	nemilenze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	nemikono	nemikono	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | voice |  |  |  |  | My mother's Simbukumbukwana *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  | legs and arms |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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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