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title: The dance at a marriage is considered of more importance than any of… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The dance at a marriage is considered of more importance than any of the others, and is therefore frequently practised until skill in its performance is attained. Who acts: skill. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads., with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 3

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The dance at a marriage is considered of more importance than any of the others, and is therefore frequently practised until skill in its performance is attained.

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**Who acts:** skill · **What happens:** consider, practise, attain, perform · **To what, where:** dance, skill

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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 (skill), 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:pg71335:28:3
# text = The dance at a marriage is considered of more importance than any of the others, and is therefore frequently practised until skill in its performance is attained.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
19	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	practised	practise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
22	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
23	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	attained	attain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | present · passive |  | the dance at a marriage |  |  |  | of more importance; than any of the others | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **practise** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | frequently, therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **attain** | present · passive |  | skill in skill's performance |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **perform** |  | skill |  |  |  |  |  | nom performance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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