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title: These tales also show the relationship between tribes and peoples of… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: These tales also show the relationship between tribes and peoples of different countries and even of different languages. Who acts: tales. 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 14

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These tales also show the relationship between tribes and peoples of different countries and even of different languages.

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**Who acts:** tales · **What happens:** show · **To what, where:** relationship

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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 (tales), 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:pg71335:1:14
# text = These tales also show the relationship between tribes and peoples of different countries and even of different languages.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	relationship	relationship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	languages	language	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | this tales | the relationship |  |  |  | between tribes and peoples of different countries and different languages | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent relationship=Recipient |

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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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