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title: The females look upon it as pertaining to them, just as in England t… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The females look upon it as pertaining to them, just as in England they look upon housework. Who acts: females. 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 200

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The females look upon it as pertaining to them, just as in England they look upon housework.

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**Who acts:** females · **What happens:** look, pertain · **To what, where:** females

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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 (females), 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:pg71335:2:200
# text = The females look upon it as pertaining to them, just as in England they look upon housework.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	pertaining	pertain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	housework	housework	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | the females |  |  |  |  | upon domain | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=Theme |
| 2 | **pertain** | gerund | the females *not said here* |  | females *= female* |  |  |  | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to they=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **look** | present | females *= female* |  |  |  |  | upon housework | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon housework=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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