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title: The Kaffir of the coast region is a model of a well-formed man. — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The Kaffir of the coast region is a model of a well-formed man. Who acts: Kaffir. 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 48

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The Kaffir of the coast region is a model of a well-formed man.

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**Who acts:** Kaffir · **What happens:** be, form · **To what, where:** model

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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 (Kaffir), 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:pg71335:2:48
# text = The Kaffir of the coast region is a model of a well-formed man.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Kaffir	Kaffir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	model	model	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Kaffir of the coast region | a model |  |  |  | of a formed man | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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