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title: One version makes Magoda escape with the children, and introduces a… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: One version makes Magoda escape with the children, and introduces a great deal of obscenity. Who acts: One version, Magoda. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Runaway Children., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Runaway Children., sentence 3

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One version makes Magoda escape with the children, and introduces a great deal of obscenity.

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**Who acts:** One version, Magoda · **What happens:** make, escape, introduce, deal · **To what, where:** Magoda, great deal, obscenity

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Runaway Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One version, Magoda), 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:pg71335:35:3
# text = One version makes Magoda escape with the children, and introduces a great deal of obscenity.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Magoda	Magoda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	introduces	introduce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	obscenity	obscenity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | One version | Magoda |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **escape** | infinitive | Magoda *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the children | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **introduce** | present | One version *not said here* | a great deal of obscenity |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient |
| 4 | **deal** |  |  | obscenity |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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