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title: A saying applied to any one who has no settled plan of living. — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: A saying applied to any one who has no settled plan of living. Who acts: one. 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 86

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A saying applied to any one who has no settled plan of living.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** apply, have, settle, plan · **To what, where:** saying, one, settled plan, living

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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 (one), 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:pg71335:26:86
# text = A saying applied to any one who has no settled plan of living.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	saying	saying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
10	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **apply** | participle |  | a saying *not said here* | any one |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | any one | no settled plan of living |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient |
| 3 | **settle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **plan** |  |  | living |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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