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title: No covering was ordinarily worn on the head, though a fillet, intend… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: No covering was ordinarily worn on the head, though a fillet, intended for show, was commonly bound round it, and a fantastic head-dress was used by the women on certain festive occasions. Who acts: women. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Ka
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Introductory Chapter Regarding the Kaffirs., sentence 87

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No covering was ordinarily worn on the head, though a fillet, intended for show, was commonly bound round it, and a fantastic head-dress was used by the women on certain festive occasions.

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**Who acts:** women · **What happens:** wear, intend, bind, use · **To what, where:** covering, head, fillet, fantastic head dress

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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 (women), 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:pg71335:2:87
# text = No covering was ordinarily worn on the head, though a fillet, intended for show, was commonly bound round it, and a fantastic head-dress was used by the women on certain festive occasions.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	covering	covering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	ordinarily	ordinarily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fillet	fillet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
19	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
21	round	round	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	fantastic	fantastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	festive	festive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	occasions	occasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past · passive |  | no covering |  | the head |  | ordinarily *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
| 2 | **intend** | participle |  | a fillet *not said here* |  |  |  | for show | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bind** | past · passive |  | a fillet |  |  |  | round covering; commonly *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **use** | past · passive | the women on certain festive occasions | a fantastic head dress |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |

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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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