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title: Ironside and his companions, having two legs, could walk much quicke… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Ironside and his companions, having two legs, could walk much quicker than the cannibals, and soon they were on the other side of the large river. Who acts: Ironside, cannibals. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of Ironside and His Sister., with its dependency tree and t
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 39

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Ironside and his companions, having two legs, could walk much quicker than the cannibals, and soon they were on the other side of the large river.

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**Who acts:** Ironside, cannibals · **What happens:** have, walk, be · **To what, where:** two legs, other side

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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 (Ironside, cannibals), 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:pg71335:13:39
# text = Ironside and his companions, having two legs, could walk much quicker than the cannibals, and soon they were on the other side of the large river.
1	Ironside	ironside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	much	much	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	quicker	quick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	advcl	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cannibals	cannibal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | Ironside and Ironside's companions *not said here* | two legs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
| 2 | **walk** | could | Ironside and Ironside's companions |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | cannibals *= cannibal* |  |  | the other side |  | of the large river; soon *property* | tree rules |

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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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