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title: The largest are about twenty-five feet in diameter, and seven or eig… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The largest are about twenty-five feet in diameter, and seven or eight feet in height in the centre. Who acts: largest. 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 92

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The largest are about twenty-five feet in diameter, and seven or eight feet in height in the centre.

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**Who acts:** largest · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** five feet, diameter

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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 (largest), 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:pg71335:2:92
# text = The largest are about twenty-five feet in diameter, and seven or eight feet in height in the centre.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	diameter	diameter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	conj	_	_
16	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the largest | five feet and seven feet in height in the centre |  | diameter |  | seven feet in height in the centre *conj* | 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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