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title: The girl said: Simbukumbukwana sikama, yiba nemilenze nemikono, and… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The girl said: Simbukumbukwana sikama, yiba nemilenze nemikono, and legs and arms came on him. Who acts: girl, legs. 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 54

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The girl said: Simbukumbukwana sikama, yiba nemilenze nemikono, and legs and arms came on him.

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**Who acts:** girl, legs · **What happens:** say, come · **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 (girl, legs), 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:pg71335:8:54
# text = The girl said: Simbukumbukwana sikama, yiba nemilenze nemikono, and legs and arms came on him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	Simbukumbukwana	Simbukumbukwana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sikama	sikama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	yiba	yiba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	nemilenze	nemilenze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	nemikono	nemikono	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | the girl |  |  |  |  | Simbukumbukwana sikama and nemilenze nemikono *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | legs and arms |  |  |  |  | on husband | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location |

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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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