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title: The parts referring to the bird and the manner of the children’s del… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The parts referring to the bird and the manner of the children’s delivery are the same in all. Who acts: parts, children. 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 4

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The parts referring to the bird and the manner of the children’s delivery are the same in all.

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**Who acts:** parts, children · **What happens:** refer, be, deliver · **To what, where:** all

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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 (parts, children), 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:pg71335:35:4
# text = The parts referring to the bird and the manner of the children’s delivery are the same in all.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
3	referring	refer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	delivery	delivery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | gerund | the parts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the bird and the manner of the children's delivery | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to bird=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the parts |  |  | all |  | same *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **deliver** |  | the children |  |  |  |  |  | nom delivery «act transitive»: poss=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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