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title: She said: “You must bring me a fat calf that I may get its tallow to… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: She said: “You must bring me a fat calf that I may get its tallow to use with my medicine” (or charms—the Kaffir word is Imifizi). Who acts: Igqirakazi, You, fat calf, tallow. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 3

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She said: “You must bring me a fat calf that I may get its tallow to use with my medicine” (or charms—the Kaffir word is Imifizi).

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**Who acts:** Igqirakazi, You, fat calf, tallow, Kaffir word, my · **What happens:** say, bring, get, use, be, medicine · **To what, where:** Igqirakazi, tallow, Imifizi · **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 (Igqirakazi, You, fat calf, tallow), 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:pg71335:8:3
# text = She said: “You must bring me a fat calf that I may get its tallow to use with my medicine” (or charms—the Kaffir word is Imifizi).
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	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	tallow	tallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	charms	charm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Kaffir	Kaffir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	Imifizi	Imifizi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Igqirakazi |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bring** *in a quote* | must | You | Igqirakazi |  |  |  | a fat calf *obj*; charms *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | may | a fat calf | calf's tallow |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **use** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | calf's tallow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with my medicine | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the Kaffir word | Imifizi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **medicine** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom medicine «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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