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title: In this story the girls are represented as taking fermented milk to… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: In this story the girls are represented as taking fermented milk to the man. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Long Snake., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Long Snake., sentence 1

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In this story the girls are represented as taking fermented milk to the man.

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**What happens:** represent, take, ferment · **To what, where:** girls, fermented milk, man

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Long Snake.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg71335:37:1
# text = In this story the girls are represented as taking fermented milk to the man.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	fermented	ferment	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **represent** | present · passive |  | the girls |  |  |  | in this story | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme in story=Attribute |
| 2 | **take** | gerund |  | fermented milk | the man |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent milk=Theme to man=Destination |
| 3 | **ferment** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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