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title: In this laborious operation a vast amount of patience and perseveran… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: In this laborious operation a vast amount of patience and perseverance was exercised, and the article when completed was very creditable indeed. Who acts: article. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., with its dependency tree and the p
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 214

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In this laborious operation a vast amount of patience and perseverance was exercised, and the article when completed was very creditable indeed.

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**Who acts:** article · **What happens:** exercise, complete, be, amount · **To what, where:** vast amount, laborious operation, patience

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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 (article), 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:pg71335:2:214
# text = In this laborious operation a vast amount of patience and perseverance was exercised, and the article when completed was very creditable indeed.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	laborious	laborious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	operation	operation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	perseverance	perseverance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	exercised	exercise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	article	article	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	completed	complete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	creditable	creditable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
23	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exercise** | past · passive |  | a vast amount of patience and perseverance |  | this laborious operation |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **complete** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the article |  |  |  |  | creditable, indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **amount** |  |  | patience and perseverance |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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