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title: A large proportion of Kaffir tales have a similar termination with m… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: A large proportion of Kaffir tales have a similar termination with many English ones; the heroine gets married to a prince. Who acts: proportion tales. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., with its dependency tree and the
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 1

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A large proportion of Kaffir tales have a similar termination with many English ones; the heroine gets married to a prince.

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**Who acts:** proportion tales · **What happens:** have, marry · **To what, where:** similar termination, heroine

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proportion tales), 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:pg71335:30:1
# text = A large proportion of Kaffir tales have a similar termination with many English ones; the heroine gets married to a prince.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	proportion	proportion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Kaffir	Kaffir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	termination	termination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	heroine	heroine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	gets	get	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | proportion tales | a similar termination |  |  |  | with many English ones | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent termination=Patient |
| 2 | **marry** | present · passive |  | the heroine |  |  |  | to a prince | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to prince=Co-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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