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title: The custom which the chief’s daughter disregarded is the following:— — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The custom which the chief’s daughter disregarded is the following:— Who acts: custom. 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 5

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The custom which the chief’s daughter disregarded is the following:—

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**Who acts:** custom · **What happens:** disregard, follow

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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 (custom), 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:pg71335:30:5
# text = The custom which the chief’s daughter disregarded is the following:—
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	disregarded	disregard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disregard** | participle | the custom |  |  |  |  | the chief's daughter *nsubj* | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **follow** | present · progressive | the custom |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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