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description: When following any of these occupations, he attires himself most fantastically, being painted with various colours, and having the tails of wild animals suspended around him. Who acts: finder. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., with 
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 187

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When following any of these occupations, he attires himself most fantastically, being painted with various colours, and having the tails of wild animals suspended around him.

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**Who acts:** finder · **What happens:** follow, attire, paint, have, suspend · **To what, where:** any, finder, tails, wild animals

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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 (finder), 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:pg71335:2:187
# text = When following any of these occupations, he attires himself most fantastically, being painted with various colours, and having the tails of wild animals suspended around him.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	occupations	occupation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	attires	attire	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	fantastically	fantastically	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	tails	tail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	suspended	suspend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	around	around	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund | finder *not said here* | any of this occupations |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme |
| 2 | **attire** | present | finder | finder |  |  |  | fantastically *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 3 | **paint** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with various colours | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: with colour=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | gerund |  | the tails of wild animals |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient |
| 5 | **suspend** | participle |  | wild animals *not said here* |  |  |  | around finder | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around he=Location |

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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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