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title: This is not a fancy of children, but the implicit belief of grown-up… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: This is not a fancy of children, but the implicit belief of grown-up men and women at the present day. Who acts: This. 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 67

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This is not a fancy of children, but the implicit belief of grown-up men and women at the present day.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** not be, grow up, believe · **To what, where:** fancy, grown men

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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 (This), 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:pg71335:29:67
# text = This is not a fancy of children, but the implicit belief of grown-up men and women at the present day.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	implicit	implicit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | This | a fancy |  |  |  | of children; the implicit belief of grown men at the present day and women *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **believe** |  |  | grown men at the present day and women |  |  |  |  | nom belief «cognition transitive»: of=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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