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title: It proposed to the duiker that they should play at hide and seek. — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: It proposed to the duiker that they should play at hide and seek. Who acts: appearance, others. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Hare., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of the Hare., sentence 20

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It proposed to the duiker that they should play at hide and seek.

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**Who acts:** appearance, others · **What happens:** propose, play, seek · **To what, where:** duiker, hide

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (appearance, others), 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:pg71335:24:20
# text = It proposed to the duiker that they should play at hide and seek.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	proposed	propose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	duiker	duiker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | past | appearance |  | the duiker |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to duiker=Recipient |
| 2 | **play** | should | others *= other* |  |  | hide |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seek** | infinitive | others *= other* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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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