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title: It is with a view of letting the people we have chosen to call Kaffi… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: It is with a view of letting the people we have chosen to call Kaffirs describe themselves in their own words, that these stories have been collected and printed. Who acts: description, view, we, people. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Opening, with its dependency tree and t
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Opening, sentence 18

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It is with a view of letting the people we have chosen to call Kaffirs describe themselves in their own words, that these stories have been collected and printed.

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**Who acts:** description, view, we, people · **What happens:** be, let, choose, call, describe, collect · **To what, where:** people, Kaffirs, own words, stories · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (description, view, we, people), 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:pg71335:1:18
# text = It is with a view of letting the people we have chosen to call Kaffirs describe themselves in their own words, that these stories have been collected and printed.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	letting	let	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	Kaffirs	kaffir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	describe	describe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | description |  |  |  |  | with a view | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | gerund | a view *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **choose** | present · perfect | we | the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | Kaffirs |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kaffir=Recipient |
| 5 | **describe** | present | the people | PEOPLE |  | PEOPLE's own words |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 6 | **collect** | present · perfect · passive |  | this stories |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **print** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **word** |  | PEOPLE |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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