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title: Among the Tembus, the Pondos, the Zulus, and many other tribes, are… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the Tembus, the Pondos, the Zulus, and many other tribes, are people with this same family title. 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 21

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Among the Tembus, the Pondos, the Zulus, and many other tribes, are people with this same family title.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** people

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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: 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:pg71335:28:21
# text = Among the Tembus, the Pondos, the Zulus, and many other tribes, are people with this same family title.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Tembus	Tembus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Pondos	Pondos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Zulus	Zulus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
20	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | people |  |  |  | among the Tembus; with same family title  this | 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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