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title: The molten iron, escaping from the crude yet effective furnace, ran… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The molten iron, escaping from the crude yet effective furnace, ran into clay moulds prepared to receive it, which were as nearly as possible of the same magnitude as the implements they wished to make. Who acts: molten iron, clay moulds, Iron. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 210

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The molten iron, escaping from the crude yet effective furnace, ran into clay moulds prepared to receive it, which were as nearly as possible of the same magnitude as the implements they wished to make.

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**Who acts:** molten iron, clay moulds, Iron · **What happens:** escape, run, prepare, receive, be, wish · **To what, where:** crude, clay moulds, furnace, 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 (molten iron, clay moulds, Iron), 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:pg71335:2:210
# text = The molten iron, escaping from the crude yet effective furnace, ran into clay moulds prepared to receive it, which were as nearly as possible of the same magnitude as the implements they wished to make.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	molten	molten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	escaping	escape	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	crude	crude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	effective	effective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	furnace	furnace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	moulds	mould	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	magnitude	magnitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	implements	implement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** | gerund | the molten iron *not said here* |  |  | the crude and effective furnace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from crude=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **run** | past | the molten iron |  |  |  |  | into clay moulds *result*; as the implements | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into mould=Result |
| 3 | **prepare** | participle |  | clay moulds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **receive** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | furnace |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | clay moulds |  |  |  |  | of the same magnitude; nearly, possible *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **wish** | past | Iron | the implements *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Iron *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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