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title: The bluebuck answered: “I am watching the fat belonging to all the a… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The bluebuck answered: “I am watching the fat belonging to all the animals.” Who acts: bluebuck. 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 29

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The bluebuck answered: “I am watching the fat belonging to all the animals.”

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**Who acts:** bluebuck · **What happens:** answer, watch, belong · **To what, where:** fat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (bluebuck), 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:pg71335:24:29
# text = The bluebuck answered: “I am watching the fat belonging to all the animals.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bluebuck	bluebuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the bluebuck |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **watch** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the bluebuck *= bluebuck* | the fat |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme |
| 3 | **belong** *in a quote* | gerund | the bluebuck *= bluebuck* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to all animals | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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