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# Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 3

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A few of their commonest proverbs and figurative expressions are here given:—

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**What happens:** give · **To what, where:** few

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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: 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:pg71335:26:3
# text = A few of their commonest proverbs and figurative expressions are here given:—
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	commonest	common	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	proverbs	proverb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	figurative	figurative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	expressions	expression	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | a few of expressions's commonest proverbs and figurative expressions |  | here |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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