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title: The dance consists merely in springing straight up and coming down w… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The dance consists merely in springing straight up and coming down with a quivering of the body; but when the men warm to it, it gives them great satisfaction. Who acts: dance, body. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Five Heads., with its dependency tree and the p
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 46

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The dance consists merely in springing straight up and coming down with a quivering of the body; but when the men warm to it, it gives them great satisfaction.

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**Who acts:** dance, body · **What happens:** consist, spring, come down, quiver, give · **To what, where:** great satisfaction, men

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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 (dance, body), 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:pg71335:28:46
# text = The dance consists merely in springing straight up and coming down with a quivering of the body; but when the men warm to it, it gives them great satisfaction.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	consists	consist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	springing	spring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	up	up	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	quivering	quiver	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	iobj	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consist** | present | the dance |  |  |  |  | merely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spring** | gerund | the dance *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come down** | gerund | the dance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **quiver** | gerund | the dance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the body | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **give** | present | body | great satisfaction | men *= man* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient satisfaction=Theme |

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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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