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title: I will begin with this one, and take this one next, and that one aft… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: I will begin with this one, and take this one next, and that one after, and the one with small feet the last.” Who acts: I. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Sikulume., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 28

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I will begin with this one, and take this one next, and that one after, and the one with small feet the last.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** begin, take · **To what, where:** one

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Sikulume.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg71335:9:28
# text = I will begin with this one, and take this one next, and that one after, and the one with small feet the last.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	next	next	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
17	after	after	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | future | I |  |  |  |  | with this one | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with one=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive | I *not said here* | this one |  |  |  | next *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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