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title: Being in the colony she could not be otherwise punished, but such tr… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Being in the colony she could not be otherwise punished, but such treatment as this would of itself, in course of time, have made her insane. 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 73

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Being in the colony she could not be otherwise punished, but such treatment as this would of itself, in course of time, have made her insane.

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**What happens:** be, not punish, make · **To what, where:** colony, woman

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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:pg71335:29:73
# text = Being in the colony she could not be otherwise punished, but such treatment as this would of itself, in course of time, have made her insane.
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	colony	colony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	insane	insane	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | the colony but such treatment and course of time |  | such treatment *conj*; course of time *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **punish** | could · passive |  | woman |  |  |  | otherwise *property* | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | present · perfect · passive |  | the colony but such treatment and course of time |  |  |  | woman *obj*; insane *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary she=Product |

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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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