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title: Amasi is very nutritious; it forms one of the principal articles of… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Amasi is very nutritious; it forms one of the principal articles of food of the Kaffirs, and is relished by most Europeans in Kaffirland. Who acts: Amasi, portion, most Europeans. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Bird That Made Milk., with its dependency tree and
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Bird That Made Milk., sentence 4

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Amasi is very nutritious; it forms one of the principal articles of food of the Kaffirs, and is relished by most Europeans in Kaffirland.

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**Who acts:** Amasi, portion, most Europeans · **What happens:** be, form, relish, article · **To what, where:** one, Kaffirland, food

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Bird That Made Milk.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Amasi, portion, most Europeans), 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:pg71335:27:4
# text = Amasi is very nutritious; it forms one of the principal articles of food of the Kaffirs, and is relished by most Europeans in Kaffirland.
1	Amasi	Amasi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	nutritious	nutritious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	articles	article	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Kaffirs	Kaffir	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	relished	relish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
24	Europeans	European	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Kaffirland	Kaffirland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Amasi |  |  |  |  | nutritious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | present | portion | one of the principal articles of food of the Kaffirs |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme |
| 3 | **relish** | present · passive | most Europeans |  |  | Kaffirland |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **article** |  |  | food of the Kaffirs |  |  |  |  | nom article «communication 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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