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title: The failure to get the exchange effected is still attributed by the… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The failure to get the exchange effected is still attributed by the relatives of the drowned girl to the absence of one skilful to work with medicines. Who acts: relatives, exchange. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo., with its dependency tree and the
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 58

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The failure to get the exchange effected is still attributed by the relatives of the drowned girl to the absence of one skilful to work with medicines.

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**Who acts:** relatives, exchange · **What happens:** get, affect, attribute, drown, work · **To what, where:** exchange, failure

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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 (relatives, exchange), 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:pg71335:29:58
# text = The failure to get the exchange effected is still attributed by the relatives of the drowned girl to the absence of one skilful to work with medicines.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	failure	failure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	effected	affect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	attributed	attribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	skilful	skilful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | to-infinitive | the relatives of the drowned girl *not said here* | the exchange |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **affect** | participle | the exchange *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **attribute** | present · passive | the relatives of the drowned girl | the failure |  |  | still | to the absence | tree rules |
| 4 | **drown** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **work** | to-infinitive | the relatives of the drowned girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with medicines | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with medicine=Co-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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