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title: CURRENT AMONG THE PEOPLE LIVING ON THE EASTERN BORDER OF THE CAPE CO… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: CURRENT AMONG THE PEOPLE LIVING ON THE EASTERN BORDER OF THE CAPE COLONY Who acts: PEOPLE. 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 3

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CURRENT AMONG THE PEOPLE LIVING ON THE EASTERN BORDER OF THE CAPE COLONY

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**Who acts:** PEOPLE · **What happens:** live · **To what, where:** EASTERN BORDER, CURRENT

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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 (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:pg71335:1:3
# text = CURRENT AMONG THE PEOPLE LIVING ON THE EASTERN BORDER OF THE CAPE COLONY
1	CURRENT	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	AMONG	among	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	PEOPLE	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	LIVING	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	ON	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	EASTERN	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	BORDER	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	CAPE	cape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	COLONY	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | gerund | the PEOPLE *not said here* |  |  | the EASTERN BORDER of the CAPE COLONY |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on border=Location |

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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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