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title: Next to the Iceya, the most popular indoor game with Kaffir children… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Next to the Iceya, the most popular indoor game with Kaffir children is the Imfumba. Who acts: Iceya. 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 50

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Next to the Iceya, the most popular indoor game with Kaffir children is the Imfumba.

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**Who acts:** Iceya · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Imfumba

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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: who acts (Iceya), 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:pg71335:32:50
# text = Next to the Iceya, the most popular indoor game with Kaffir children is the Imfumba.
1	Next	next	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Iceya	Iceya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	indoor	indoor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Kaffir	Kaffir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Imfumba	Imfumba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Iceya | the Imfumba |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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