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title: The adjective follows the noun, as abantwana bane, children four, iz… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The adjective follows the noun, as abantwana bane, children four, izinto zine, things four. Who acts: adjective. 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 70

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The adjective follows the noun, as abantwana bane, children four, izinto zine, things four.

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**Who acts:** adjective · **What happens:** follow · **To what, where:** noun

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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 (adjective), 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:pg71335:2:70
# text = The adjective follows the noun, as abantwana bane, children four, izinto zine, things four.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	adjective	adjective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	abantwana	abantwana	X	FW	_	9	compound	_	_
9	bane	bane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	_
12	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	izinto	izinto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	zine	zine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | present | the adjective | the noun |  |  |  | izinto zine and things | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noun=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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