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title: The idea of the Kaffir with regard to drowning is also shown very di… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The idea of the Kaffir with regard to drowning is also shown very distinctly in this tale. 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 47

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The idea of the Kaffir with regard to drowning is also shown very distinctly in this tale.

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**What happens:** show · **To what, where:** idea

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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: 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:pg71335:29:47
# text = The idea of the Kaffir with regard to drowning is also shown very distinctly in this tale.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Kaffir	Kaffir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	drowning	drowning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **show** | present · passive |  | the idea of the Kaffir with regard to drowning |  |  |  | in this tale; distinctly *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in tale=Topic |

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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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