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title: When a person is killed by lightning no lamentation is made, as it w… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: When a person is killed by lightning no lamentation is made, as it would be considered rebellion to mourn for one whom the great chief has sent for. Who acts: lightning. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., with its dependency tree and
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 133

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When a person is killed by lightning no lamentation is made, as it would be considered rebellion to mourn for one whom the great chief has sent for.

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**Who acts:** lightning · **What happens:** kill, make, consider, mourn, send · **To what, where:** person, lamentation, great chief

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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: who acts (lightning), 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:pg71335:2:133
# text = When a person is killed by lightning no lamentation is made, as it would be considered rebellion to mourn for one whom the great chief has sent for.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	lamentation	lamentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
18	rebellion	rebellion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	mourn	mourn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	obl	_	_
23	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | present · passive | lightning | a person |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | present · passive | lightning *not said here* | no lamentation |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **consider** | would · passive |  | lamentation |  |  |  | rebellion *xcomp* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 4 | **mourn** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for one | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for one=Attribute |
| 5 | **send** | present · perfect · passive |  | the great chief |  |  |  | whom *obj* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination whom=Theme |

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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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