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title: This is not in accordance with ordinary Kaffir usage, which prohibit… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: This is not in accordance with ordinary Kaffir usage, which prohibits females from serving out milk. Who acts: This, accordance. 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 2

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This is not in accordance with ordinary Kaffir usage, which prohibits females from serving out milk.

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**Who acts:** This, accordance · **What happens:** not be, prohibit, serve out · **To what, where:** accordance, females, milk

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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: who acts (This, accordance), 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:pg71335:37:2
# text = This is not in accordance with ordinary Kaffir usage, which prohibits females from serving out milk.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	accordance	accordance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Kaffir	Kaffir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	usage	usage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	prohibits	prohibit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	serving	serve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | This |  |  | accordance |  | with ordinary Kaffir usage | tree rules |
| 2 | **prohibit** | present | accordance | females |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer female=Theme |
| 3 | **serve out** | gerund | accordance *not said here* | milk |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Attribute |

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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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