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title: After a time his father and his mother came home; they went in and s… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: After a time his father and his mother came home; they went in and saw the clean floor and bread ready for eating. Who acts: father. 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 31

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After a time his father and his mother came home; they went in and saw the clean floor and bread ready for eating.

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** come, go in, see, eat · **To what, where:** clean floor

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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 (father), 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:pg71335:8:31
# text = After a time his father and his mother came home; they went in and saw the clean floor and bread ready for eating.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	home	home	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Simbukumbukwana's father and Simbukumbukwana's mother |  |  |  | time | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go in** | past | father |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | past | father *not said here* | the clean floor and bread |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer floor=Stimulus |
| 4 | **eat** | gerund | father *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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