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title: It creates protectors for herself and her children in the persons of… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: It creates protectors for herself and her children in the persons of all the individuals among whom the cattle are shared. Who acts: violence. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 15

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It creates protectors for herself and her children in the persons of all the individuals among whom the cattle are shared.

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**Who acts:** violence · **What happens:** create, share · **To what, where:** protectors, cattle

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (violence), 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:pg71335:28:15
# text = It creates protectors for herself and her children in the persons of all the individuals among whom the cattle are shared.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	creates	create	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	protectors	protector	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	individuals	individual	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	among	among	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **create** | present | violence | protectors |  |  |  | for transfer | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent protector=Result for herself=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **share** | present · passive |  | the cattle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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