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title: Of late years a great deal of interest has been taken in the folklor… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Of late years a great deal of interest has been taken in the folklore of uncivilized tribes by those who have made it their business to study mankind. Who acts: those. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Opening, sentence 11

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Of late years a great deal of interest has been taken in the folklore of uncivilized tribes by those who have made it their business to study mankind.

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**Who acts:** those · **What happens:** take, make, study, deal · **To what, where:** great deal, folklore, deal, mankind, interest

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (those), 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:pg71335:1:11
# text = Of late years a great deal of interest has been taken in the folklore of uncivilized tribes by those who have made it their business to study mankind.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	folklore	folklore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	uncivilized	uncivilized	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	study	study	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
28	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present · perfect · passive | those | a great deal of interest |  | the folklore of uncivilized tribes | year |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Value in folklore=Location |
| 2 | **make** | present · perfect |  | deal |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; tribes's business *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary business=Product |
| 3 | **study** | to-infinitive |  | mankind |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mankind=Topic |
| 4 | **deal** |  |  | interest |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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