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title: The plain on which the little girl was put down was near a town in w… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The plain on which the little girl was put down was near a town in which lived a nation of cannibals who had one leg much longer than the other. Who acts: plain, town, cannibals. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of Ironside and His Sister., with its dependency tree and 
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Ironside and His Sister., sentence 7

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The plain on which the little girl was put down was near a town in which lived a nation of cannibals who had one leg much longer than the other.

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**Who acts:** plain, town, cannibals · **What happens:** put down, be, live, have · **To what, where:** little girl, plain, town, nation, one leg

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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 (plain, town, 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:pg71335:13:7
# text = The plain on which the little girl was put down was near a town in which lived a nation of cannibals who had one leg much longer than the other.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	near	near	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	cannibals	cannibal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	much	much	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put down** | past · passive |  | the little girl |  | the plain |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on which=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | the plain |  |  | a town |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | past | a town | a nation of cannibals |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme nation=Location |
| 4 | **have** | past | cannibals | one leg |  |  |  | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=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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