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title: He said to them: “Now go in; although you have beaten me, there is a… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: He said to them: “Now go in; although you have beaten me, there is a house and fire for you.” Who acts: boy, father, house. 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 66

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He said to them: “Now go in; although you have beaten me, there is a house and fire for you.”

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**Who acts:** boy, father, house · **What happens:** say, go in, beat, be · **To what, where:** father, boy · **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 (boy, father, house), 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:pg71335:8:66
# text = He said to them: “Now go in; although you have beaten me, there is a house and fire for you.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|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	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	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 | boy |  | father |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go in** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **beat** *in a quote* | present · perfect | father | boy |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme |
| 4 | **does** *in a quote* | present | a house and fire for you |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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