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title: The cannibals saw the advantage of having two legs of equal length,… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The cannibals saw the advantage of having two legs of equal length, and they became jealous of the woman and her child. Who acts: cannibals, advantage. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of Ironside and His Sister., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 15

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The cannibals saw the advantage of having two legs of equal length, and they became jealous of the woman and her child.

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**Who acts:** cannibals, advantage · **What happens:** see, have, become · **To what, where:** advantage, two legs

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of Ironside and His Sister.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cannibals, advantage), 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:pg71335:13:15
# text = The cannibals saw the advantage of having two legs of equal length, and they became jealous of the woman and her child.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cannibals	cannibal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the cannibals | the advantage |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer advantage=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | the advantage *not said here* | two legs of equal length |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 3 | **become** | past | cannibals *= cannibal* |  |  |  |  | jealous *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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