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title: B’s wife, who was distantly related to A, had been married more than… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: B’s wife, who was distantly related to A, had been married more than a year without bearing a child. Who acts: wife. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 32

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B’s wife, who was distantly related to A, had been married more than a year without bearing a child.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** be, marry, bear · **To what, where:** wife, child

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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 (wife), 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:pg71335:29:32
# text = B’s wife, who was distantly related to A, had been married more than a year without bearing a child.
1	B	B	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	distantly	distantly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	18	advmod	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | B's wife |  |  |  |  | to A; distantly, related *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **marry** | past · perfect · passive |  | B's wife |  |  | year |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **bear** | gerund |  | a child |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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