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title: The nodiwu is a piece of wood about six or eight inches long, an inc… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The nodiwu is a piece of wood about six or eight inches long, an inch and a half or two inches wide, and an eighth or a quarter of an inch thick in the middle. Who acts: nodiwu. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Sikulume., with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Sikulume., sentence 60

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The nodiwu is a piece of wood about six or eight inches long, an inch and a half or two inches wide, and an eighth or a quarter of an inch thick in the middle.

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**Who acts:** nodiwu · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** piece

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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 (nodiwu), 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:pg71335:32:60
# text = The nodiwu is a piece of wood about six or eight inches long, an inch and a half or two inches wide, and an eighth or a quarter of an inch thick in the middle.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nodiwu	nodiwu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	_
12	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	16	conj	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	eighth	eighth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | the nodiwu | a piece and a eighth or a quarter of a inch |  |  |  | of wood; a inch and a half or two inches *parataxis*; a eighth or a quarter of a inch *conj* | 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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