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title: In point of fact, however, matches arising from mutual love are not… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: In point of fact, however, matches arising from mutual love are not uncommon. Who acts: matches. 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 5

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In point of fact, however, matches arising from mutual love are not uncommon.

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**Who acts:** matches · **What happens:** arise, not be, point · **To what, where:** mutual love, point, fact

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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 (matches), 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:pg71335:28:5
# text = In point of fact, however, matches arising from mutual love are not uncommon.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	matches	match	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
9	arising	arise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	mutual	mutual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | gerund | matches *not said here* |  |  | mutual love |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | matches |  |  | point of fact |  | however, uncommon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **point** |  |  | fact |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition 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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