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title: The priest and witch-finder professes also to have the power of maki… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The priest and witch-finder professes also to have the power of making rain, and of causing the warriors of his clan to be invulnerable in battle. Who acts: priest, power, warriors. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., with its depende
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 186

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The priest and witch-finder professes also to have the power of making rain, and of causing the warriors of his clan to be invulnerable in battle.

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**Who acts:** priest, power, warriors · **What happens:** profess, have, make, cause, be · **To what, where:** power, rain, warriors, battle

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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 (priest, power, warriors), 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:pg71335:2:186
# text = The priest and witch-finder professes also to have the power of making rain, and of causing the warriors of his clan to be invulnerable in battle.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	finder	finder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	professes	profess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	causing	cause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	invulnerable	invulnerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **profess** | present | the priest and witch finder |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | the priest and witch finder *not said here* | the power |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | the power *not said here* | rain |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rain=Product |
| 4 | **cause** | gerund | the priest and witch finder *not said here* | the warriors of person's clan |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition warrior=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | the warriors of person's clan *not said here* |  |  | battle |  | invulnerable *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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