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# Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 37

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Probably she is the daughter of a neighbouring chief, for it is indispensable in her case that the blood of the ruling line should flow in her veins.

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**Who acts:** alliance, chief, blood · **What happens:** be, neighbour, flow · **To what, where:** daughter, case, veins

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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 (alliance, chief, blood), 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:pg71335:2:37
# text = Probably she is the daughter of a neighbouring chief, for it is indispensable in her case that the blood of the ruling line should flow in her veins.
1	Probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	indispensable	indispensable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	ruling	ruling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	flow	flow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | alliance | the daughter |  |  |  | of a neighbouring chief; probably *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | chief |  |  | alliance's case |  | indispensable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **flow** | should | the blood of the ruling line |  |  | alliance's veins |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in vein=Location |

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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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