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title: There is no difficulty whatever in expressing any ideas in the Kaffi… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: There is no difficulty whatever in expressing any ideas in the Kaffir language. Who acts: difficulty, whatever. 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 66

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There is no difficulty whatever in expressing any ideas in the Kaffir language.

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**Who acts:** difficulty, whatever · **What happens:** be, express · **To what, where:** ideas, Kaffir language

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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 (difficulty, whatever), 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:pg71335:2:66
# text = There is no difficulty whatever in expressing any ideas in the Kaffir language.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	expressing	express	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Kaffir	Kaffir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no difficulty |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **express** | gerund | whatever | any ideas |  | the Kaffir language |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=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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