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title: There is no beautiful fairyland for him, for all these fanciful bein… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no beautiful fairyland for him, for all these fanciful beings who haunt the mountains, the plains, and the rivers, are either actively malevolent, or mischievous and addicted to playing pranks. Who acts: beautiful fairyland, fanciful beings, rivers. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by Georg
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 174

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There is no beautiful fairyland for him, for all these fanciful beings who haunt the mountains, the plains, and the rivers, are either actively malevolent, or mischievous and addicted to playing pranks.

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**Who acts:** beautiful fairyland, fanciful beings, rivers · **What happens:** be, haunt, addict, play · **To what, where:** mountains, pranks

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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 (beautiful fairyland, fanciful beings, rivers), 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:pg71335:2:174
# text = There is no beautiful fairyland for him, for all these fanciful beings who haunt the mountains, the plains, and the rivers, are either actively malevolent, or mischievous and addicted to playing pranks.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	fairyland	fairyland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
11	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	fanciful	fanciful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	haunt	haunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc:preconj	_	_
28	actively	actively	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	malevolent	malevolent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	addicted	addict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	_
35	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
36	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	advcl	_	_
37	pranks	prank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | no beautiful fairyland for Qamata and all fanciful beings and the plains |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **haunt** | present | all fanciful beings | the mountains |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mountain=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | present | the rivers |  |  |  |  | actively, malevolent *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the rivers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **addict** | participle | the rivers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **play** | gerund | the rivers *not said here* | pranks |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prank=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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