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title: Men will, on this account, often prevent boys from using it when the… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Men will, on this account, often prevent boys from using it when they desire calm weather for any purpose. Who acts: Men. 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 67

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Men will, on this account, often prevent boys from using it when they desire calm weather for any purpose.

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**Who acts:** Men · **What happens:** prevent, use, desire · **To what, where:** boys, account, calm weather

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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 (Men), 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:pg71335:32:67
# text = Men will, on this account, often prevent boys from using it when they desire calm weather for any purpose.
1	Men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	prevent	prevent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	desire	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
17	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevent** | present | Men and this account | boys |  |  |  | often *property* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer boy=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | Men and this account *not said here* | account |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **desire** | present | men *= man* | calm weather |  |  |  | for any purpose | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot weather=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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