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title: In these contests pretty hard strokes are sometimes given and receiv… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: In these contests pretty hard strokes are sometimes given and received with the utmost good humour. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Sikulume., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 16

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In these contests pretty hard strokes are sometimes given and received with the utmost good humour.

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**What happens:** give, receive · **To what, where:** hard strokes, contests

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Sikulume.. 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:pg71335:32:16
# text = In these contests pretty hard strokes are sometimes given and received with the utmost good humour.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	contests	contest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	strokes	stroke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	utmost	utmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	humour	humour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | hard strokes |  | this contests |  | sometimes *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **receive** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with the utmost good humour | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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