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title: The animal felt uncomfortable under this treatment, and called his c… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The animal felt uncomfortable under this treatment, and called his councillors together for advice, but they could suggest no remedy. Who acts: animal, animals. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals., with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals., sentence 17

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The animal felt uncomfortable under this treatment, and called his councillors together for advice, but they could suggest no remedy.

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**Who acts:** animal, animals · **What happens:** feel, call, suggest · **To what, where:** treatment, councillors, remedy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Great Chief of the Animals.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animal, animals), 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:pg71335:23:17
# text = The animal felt uncomfortable under this treatment, and called his councillors together for advice, but they could suggest no remedy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	councillors	councillor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	suggest	suggest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	remedy	remedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | the animal |  |  | this treatment |  | uncomfortable *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **call** | past |  | hare's councillors |  |  |  | for advice; together *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent councillor=Theme for advice=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | could | animals *= animal* | no remedy |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent remedy=Topic |

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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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