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title: All along the eastern coast, as far south as the Great Fish River, t… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: All along the eastern coast, as far south as the Great Fish River, the country is thickly populated with Kaffir tribes. Who acts: country. 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 7

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All along the eastern coast, as far south as the Great Fish River, the country is thickly populated with Kaffir tribes.

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**Who acts:** country · **What happens:** be, populate

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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 (country), 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:pg71335:2:7
# text = All along the eastern coast, as far south as the Great Fish River, the country is thickly populated with Kaffir tribes.
1	All	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	along	along	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
9	south	south	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Fish	Fish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	thickly	thickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
20	populated	populate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	Kaffir	Kaffir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the country |  |  |  |  | as the Great Fish River; south, thickly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **populate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with Kaffir tribes | tree rules |

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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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