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title: How this belief works practically may be illustrated by facts which… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: How this belief works practically may be illustrated by facts which have come under my own cognizance. Who acts: belief, facts, my. 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 49

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How this belief works practically may be illustrated by facts which have come under my own cognizance.

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**Who acts:** belief, facts, my · **What happens:** work, illustrate, come, cognize · **To what, where:** own cognizance

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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 (belief, facts, my), 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:pg71335:29:49
# text = How this belief works practically may be illustrated by facts which have come under my own cognizance.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	practically	practically	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	illustrated	illustrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cognizance	cognizance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | this belief |  |  |  |  | practically *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **illustrate** | may · passive | facts |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | present · perfect | facts |  |  | my own cognizance |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under cognizance=Location |
| 4 | **cognize** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom cognizance «cognition 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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