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description: In hunting she learned to be very swift of foot, and could run so fast that nothing she pursued could escape from her. Who acts: woman, nothing. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather., sentence 5

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In hunting she learned to be very swift of foot, and could run so fast that nothing she pursued could escape from her.

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**Who acts:** woman, nothing · **What happens:** learn, be, run, pursue, escape · **To what, where:** hunting, swift · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Runaway Children; Or, the Wonderful Feather.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, nothing), 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:pg71335:12:5
# text = In hunting she learned to be very swift of foot, and could run so fast that nothing she pursued could escape from her.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	22	nsubj	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | woman |  |  | hunting |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | swift |  |  |  | of foot | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** | could | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pursue** | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **escape** | could | nothing |  |  |  |  | from woman | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from she=Initial\_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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