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title: They will sit, however, with exemplary patience, for days together,… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: They will sit, however, with exemplary patience, for days together, to hear all the details of a case, and, where bribery is impossible, their sentences are usually in accordance with strict justice. Who acts: judges, bribery, sentences. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Intro
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 34

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They will sit, however, with exemplary patience, for days together, to hear all the details of a case, and, where bribery is impossible, their sentences are usually in accordance with strict justice.

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**Who acts:** judges, bribery, sentences · **What happens:** sit, hear, be, detail, sentence · **To what, where:** details, accordance, case

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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 (judges, bribery, sentences), 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:pg71335:2:34
# text = They will sit, however, with exemplary patience, for days together, to hear all the details of a case, and, where bribery is impossible, their sentences are usually in accordance with strict justice.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	exemplary	exemplary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	patience	patience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	details	detail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
27	bribery	bribery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	sentences	sentence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	accordance	accordance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	strict	strict	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | future | judges *= judge* |  |  |  |  | with exemplary patience; however, together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive | judges *= judge* *not said here* | all details of a case |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer detail=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | bribery |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | judges's sentences |  |  | accordance |  | with strict justice; usually *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **detail** |  |  | a case |  |  |  |  | nom detail «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **sentence** |  | judges *= judge* |  |  |  |  |  | nom sentence «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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