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title: LONDON: SWAN SONNENSCHEIN, Le BAS & LOWREY, PATERNOSTER SQUARE. — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: LONDON: SWAN SONNENSCHEIN, Le BAS & LOWREY, PATERNOSTER SQUARE. Who acts: LONDON. 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 8

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LONDON: SWAN SONNENSCHEIN, Le BAS & LOWREY, PATERNOSTER SQUARE.

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**Who acts:** LONDON · **What happens:** swan · **To what, where:** SONNENSCHEIN

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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 (LONDON), 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:pg71335:1:8
# text = LONDON: SWAN SONNENSCHEIN, Le BAS & LOWREY, PATERNOSTER SQUARE.
1	LONDON	LONDON	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	SWAN	swan	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	SONNENSCHEIN	SONNENSCHEIN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Le	Le	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	BAS	BAS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
8	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	LOWREY	LOWREY	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	PATERNOSTER	paternoster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	SQUARE	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swan** | infinitive | LONDON | SONNENSCHEIN & LOWREY and PATERNOSTER SQUARE |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location sonnenschein=Theme |

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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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