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title: Married women wore a short leather petticoat at all times; in warm w… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Married women wore a short leather petticoat at all times; in warm weather men and children went quite naked. Who acts: Married women, children. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 86

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Married women wore a short leather petticoat at all times; in warm weather men and children went quite naked.

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**Who acts:** Married women, children · **What happens:** wear, go · **To what, where:** short leather petticoat

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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 (Married women, children), 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:pg71335:2:86
# text = Married women wore a short leather petticoat at all times; in warm weather men and children went quite naked.
1	Married	married	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	petticoat	petticoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | Married women | a short leather petticoat |  |  | time | in warm weather men | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent petticoat=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | children |  |  |  |  | naked *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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