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title: In such cases, if any difficulties are raised by the guardians on ei… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: In such cases, if any difficulties are raised by the guardians on either side, the young people do not scruple to run away together, after which their relatives usually come to an arrangement. Who acts: guardians, young people, relatives. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The 
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Five Heads., sentence 6

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In such cases, if any difficulties are raised by the guardians on either side, the young people do not scruple to run away together, after which their relatives usually come to an arrangement.

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**Who acts:** guardians, young people, relatives · **What happens:** raise, not scruple, run away, come · **To what, where:** difficulties, such cases, arrangement

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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 (guardians, young people, relatives), 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:pg71335:28:6
# text = In such cases, if any difficulties are raised by the guardians on either side, the young people do not scruple to run away together, after which their relatives usually come to an arrangement.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	guardians	guardian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:agent	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	scruple	scruple	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	together	together	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obl	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
32	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | present · passive | the guardians on either side | any difficulties |  | such cases |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in case=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **scruple** | present · do-support | the young people |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run away** | to-infinitive | the young people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | present | people's relatives |  |  | a arrangement |  | which *obl*; usually *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to arrangement=Initial\_Location |

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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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