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description: Mc CALL THEAL, AUTHOR OF “A HISTORY OF THE COLONIES AND STATES OF SOUTH AFRICA.” Who acts: Mc. 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 6

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Mc CALL THEAL, AUTHOR OF “A HISTORY OF THE COLONIES AND STATES OF SOUTH AFRICA.”

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**Who acts:** Mc · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** THEAL · **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 (Mc), 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:pg71335:1:6
# text = Mc CALL THEAL, AUTHOR OF “A HISTORY OF THE COLONIES AND STATES OF SOUTH AFRICA.”
1	Mc	Mc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	CALL	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	THEAL	THEAL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	AUTHOR	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	HISTORY	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	COLONIES	colony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	STATES	STATES	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
15	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	SOUTH	SOUTH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	AFRICA	AFRICA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present | Mc |  | THEAL and STATES of SOUTH AFRICA |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent theal=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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