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title: “Let me alone, lu bo bo, Let me alone, lu bo bo.” — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: “Let me alone, lu bo bo, Let me alone, lu bo bo.” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of the Glutton., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of the Glutton., sentence 30

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“Let me alone, lu bo bo, Let me alone, lu bo bo.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** let · **To what, where:** lu bo, glutton

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of the Glutton.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg71335:22:30
# text = “Let me alone, lu bo bo, Let me alone, lu bo bo.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	lu	lu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	8	dep	_	_
7	bo	bo	X	FW	_	8	compound	_	_
8	bo	bo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	lu	lu	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat:foreign	_	_
15	bo	bo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	obj	_	_
16	bo	bo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	15	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | lu bo | the glutton *= glutton* |  |  | bo bo *obl*; alone *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bo=Theme |
| 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the glutton *= glutton* |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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