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title: These were carefully separated, and then persons skilled in such mat… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: These were carefully separated, and then persons skilled in such matters were brought to give evidence as to their properties. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Simbukumbukwana., sentence 6

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These were carefully separated, and then persons skilled in such matters were brought to give evidence as to their properties.

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**What happens:** separate, skill, bring, give · **To what, where:** These, persons, such matters, evidence

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Simbukumbukwana.. 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:pg71335:31:6
# text = These were carefully separated, and then persons skilled in such matters were brought to give evidence as to their properties.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	skilled	skill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	properties	property	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **separate** | past · passive |  | These |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **skill** | participle |  | persons *not said here* |  | such matters |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | past · passive |  | persons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive |  | evidence |  |  |  | as matters's properties | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=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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