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title: What recommendation, for instance, has the girl in this story to the… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: What recommendation, for instance, has the girl in this story to the favour of the young chief? Who acts: recommendation. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Girl Who Disregarded the Custom of Ntonjane., sentence 4

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What recommendation, for instance, has the girl in this story to the favour of the young chief?

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**Who acts:** recommendation · **What happens:** recommendation, have, favour · **To what, where:** girl, story, young chief

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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 (recommendation), 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:pg71335:30:4
# text = What recommendation, for instance, has the girl in this story to the favour of the young chief?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	recommendation	recommendation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recommendation** |  |  |  |  |  |  | What *nsubj*; instance *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | recommendation and instance | the girl |  | this story to the favour of the young chief |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient |
| 3 | **favour** |  |  | the young chief |  |  |  |  | nom favour «feeling 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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