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title: Foremost among these must be reckoned metallic wares, which include… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Foremost among these must be reckoned metallic wares, which include implements of war and husbandry, and ornaments for the person. Who acts: metallic wares. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 203

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Foremost among these must be reckoned metallic wares, which include implements of war and husbandry, and ornaments for the person.

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**Who acts:** metallic wares · **What happens:** reckon, include · **To what, where:** Foremost, implements

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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 (metallic wares), 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:pg71335:2:203
# text = Foremost among these must be reckoned metallic wares, which include implements of war and husbandry, and ornaments for the person.
1	Foremost	foremost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	1	obl	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	reckoned	reckon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	metallic	metallic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wares	ware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	include	include	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	implements	implement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	husbandry	husbandry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | must · passive |  | Foremost among these |  |  |  | metallic wares *obj*; ornaments for the person *conj* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme ware=Attribute |
| 2 | **include** | present | metallic wares | implements of war and husbandry |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent implement=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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