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title: All the children take the family title of the father, and can thus m… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: All the children take the family title of the father, and can thus marry people of the same family title as the mother, provided they are not closely related in blood. Who acts: children. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads., with its dependency tree and 
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 24

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All the children take the family title of the father, and can thus marry people of the same family title as the mother, provided they are not closely related in blood.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** take, marry, provide, not be, title · **To what, where:** family title, people, blood, father

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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 (children), 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:pg71335:28:24
# text = All the children take the family title of the father, and can thus marry people of the same family title as the mother, provided they are not closely related in blood.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	marry	marry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	ccomp	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | all children | the family title of the father |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Theme |
| 2 | **marry** | can |  | people of the same family title as the mother |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 3 | **provide** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present | children *= child* |  |  | blood |  | closely, related *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **title** |  |  | the father |  |  |  |  | nom title «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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