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title: This tree was a very good one, bearing much fruit on it. — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: This tree was a very good one, bearing much fruit on it. Who acts: tree, good one. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Hlakanyana., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Hlakanyana., sentence 379

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This tree was a very good one, bearing much fruit on it.

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**Who acts:** tree, good one · **What happens:** be, bear · **To what, where:** good one, much fruit, fruit

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Hlakanyana.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, good one), 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:pg71335:10:379
# text = This tree was a very good one, bearing much fruit on it.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this tree | a good one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | gerund | a good one *not said here* | much fruit |  | fruit |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |

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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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