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title: Many words in use by the women, though appearing in a Kaffir form, c… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Many words in use by the women, though appearing in a Kaffir form, can be traced to Hottentot roots. Who acts: use, women. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 20

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Many words in use by the women, though appearing in a Kaffir form, can be traced to Hottentot roots.

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**Who acts:** use, women · **What happens:** appear, trace, use · **To what, where:** Kaffir form, Many words

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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 (use, women), 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:pg71335:2:20
# text = Many words in use by the women, though appearing in a Kaffir form, can be traced to Hottentot roots.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	appearing	appear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Kaffir	Kaffir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	traced	trace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	Hottentot	Hottentot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | gerund | use by the women *not said here* |  |  | a Kaffir form |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location |
| 2 | **trace** | can · passive |  | Many words in use by the women |  |  |  | to Hottentot roots | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **use** |  | the women |  |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: by=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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