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title: She may not sit in the house where her father-in-law is seated, she… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: She may not sit in the house where her father-in-law is seated, she may not even pronounce any word in which the principal syllable of his name occurs. Who acts: woman, principal syllable, syllable. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo., with its depende
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 43

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She may not sit in the house where her father-in-law is seated, she may not even pronounce any word in which the principal syllable of his name occurs.

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**Who acts:** woman, principal syllable, syllable · **What happens:** not sit, seat, not pronounce, occur, name · **To what, where:** house, father, word

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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 (woman, principal syllable, syllable), 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:pg71335:29:43
# text = She may not sit in the house where her father-in-law is seated, she may not even pronounce any word in which the principal syllable of his name occurs.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
23	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	syllable	syllable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	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 | **not** **sit** | may | woman |  |  | the house |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location |
| 2 | **seat** | present · passive |  | woman's father in law |  |  |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
| 3 | **not** **pronounce** | may | woman | any word |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 4 | **occur** | present | the principal syllable of syllable's name |  |  | any word |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 5 | **name** |  | syllable |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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