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title: Applied to any person who never does well, but is always getting int… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Applied to any person who never does well, but is always getting into scrapes. Who acts: person. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 13

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Applied to any person who never does well, but is always getting into scrapes.

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**Who acts:** person · **What happens:** apply, not do, get · **To what, where:** scrapes

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person), 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:pg71335:26:13
# text = Applied to any person who never does well, but is always getting into scrapes.
1	Applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	13	advmod	_	_
13	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	scrapes	scrape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **apply** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to any person | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **do** | present | any person |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get** | present · progressive |  |  |  | scrapes |  | always *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into scrape=Destination |

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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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