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title: No man was ever so skilful and successful in the pursuit of game as… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: No man was ever so skilful and successful in the pursuit of game as he. Who acts: man. 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 203

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No man was ever so skilful and successful in the pursuit of game as he.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, pursue · **To what, where:** pursuit, game

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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 (man), 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:pg71335:26:203
# text = No man was ever so skilful and successful in the pursuit of game as he.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	advmod	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	skilful	skilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | no man |  |  |  | ever | skilful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | no man *not said here* |  |  | the pursuit of game as man |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pursue** |  |  | game |  |  |  | as man | nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient as=obl |

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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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