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title: Hardly less remarkable was their skill in pottery, an art rapidly be… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Hardly less remarkable was their skill in pottery, an art rapidly becoming lost since the introduction of European wares. Who acts: art. 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 217

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Hardly less remarkable was their skill in pottery, an art rapidly becoming lost since the introduction of European wares.

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**Who acts:** art · **What happens:** be, become, lose, introduce · **To what, where:** remarkable skill, pottery, European wares

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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 (art), 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:pg71335:2:217
# text = Hardly less remarkable was their skill in pottery, an art rapidly becoming lost since the introduction of European wares.
1	Hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	pottery	pottery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	_
15	since	since	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	introduction	introduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	wares	ware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Europeans's remarkable skill and a art |  | pottery |  | Europeans *= european* *nmod:poss*; a art *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **become** | gerund | a art *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rapidly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lose** | participle | a art *not said here* |  |  |  | since the introduction of European wares |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **introduce** |  |  | European wares |  |  |  |  | nom introduction «act 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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