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title: A superstitious act of a very peculiar kind is somehow or other conn… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: A superstitious act of a very peculiar kind is somehow or other connected in their minds with prayer to, or worship of, Qamata. Who acts: peculiar kind, acts, Qamata. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., with its dependency tree and th
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 163

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A superstitious act of a very peculiar kind is somehow or other connected in their minds with prayer to, or worship of, Qamata.

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**Who acts:** peculiar kind, acts, Qamata · **What happens:** connect, act, mind, worship · **To what, where:** superstitious act, minds

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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 (peculiar kind, acts, Qamata), 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:pg71335:2:163
# text = A superstitious act of a very peculiar kind is somehow or other connected in their minds with prayer to, or worship of, Qamata.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	superstitious	superstitious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
10	somehow	somehow	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	worship	worship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	Qamata	Qamata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **connect** | present · passive |  | a superstitious act of a peculiar kind |  | acts's minds with prayer |  | worship of Qamata *obl*; somehow *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **act** |  | a peculiar kind |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 3 | **mind** |  | acts *= act* |  |  |  |  | with prayer | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
| 4 | **worship** |  | Qamata |  |  |  |  |  | nom worship «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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