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title: Of those mentioned their food consisted, with the addition of curdle… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Of those mentioned their food consisted, with the addition of curdled milk and occasionally flesh. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 125

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Of those mentioned their food consisted, with the addition of curdled milk and occasionally flesh.

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**What happens:** mention, consist, curdle, flesh · **To what, where:** food

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg71335:2:125
# text = Of those mentioned their food consisted, with the addition of curdled milk and occasionally flesh.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
3	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	consisted	consist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	addition	addition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	curdled	curdle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	occasionally	occasionally	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	flesh	flesh	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mention** *speech: other* | participle |  | species's food |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent food=Topic |
| 2 | **consist** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **curdle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **flesh** | present |  |  |  |  |  | occasionally *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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