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title: The next day the woman went again to work in her garden, but the man… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The next day the woman went again to work in her garden, but the man hid himself to watch what would happen. Who acts: woman, man. 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 36

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The next day the woman went again to work in her garden, but the man hid himself to watch what would happen.

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**Who acts:** woman, man · **What happens:** go, work, hide, watch, happen · **To what, where:** man

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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 (woman, man), 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:pg71335:8:36
# text = The next day the woman went again to work in her garden, but the man hid himself to watch what would happen.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the woman |  |  |  | again; day |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | the woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in woman's garden | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in garden=Theme |
| 3 | **hide** | past | the man | man |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 4 | **watch** | to-infinitive | the man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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