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title: Sometimes she is returned by her husband to her parents, a proceedin… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Sometimes she is returned by her husband to her parents, a proceeding commonly adopted when she has a marriageable sister who can be given to him in exchange. Who acts: husband, proceeding, woman. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo., with its dependenc
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 30

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Sometimes she is returned by her husband to her parents, a proceeding commonly adopted when she has a marriageable sister who can be given to him in exchange.

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**Who acts:** husband, proceeding, woman · **What happens:** return, adopt, have, give · **To what, where:** woman, marriageable sister, husband, exchange

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, proceeding, woman), 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:pg71335:29:30
# text = Sometimes she is returned by her husband to her parents, a proceeding commonly adopted when she has a marriageable sister who can be given to him in exchange.
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	proceeding	proceeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	commonly	commonly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	marriageable	marriageable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **return** | present · passive | woman's husband to woman's parents | woman |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **adopt** | past | a proceeding |  |  |  |  | commonly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | woman | a marriageable sister |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | can · passive |  | a marriageable sister | husband | exchange |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to he=Recipient |

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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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