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title: They put fat in the kraal the sixth time, and selected the hare (umv… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: They put fat in the kraal the sixth time, and selected the hare (umvundla) to be the keeper of the gate. Who acts: animals. 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 50

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They put fat in the kraal the sixth time, and selected the hare (umvundla) to be the keeper of the gate.

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**Who acts:** animals · **What happens:** put, select, be · **To what, where:** fat, kraal, hare, keeper

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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 (animals), 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:pg71335:24:50
# text = They put fat in the kraal the sixth time, and selected the hare (umvundla) to be the keeper of the gate.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kraal	kraal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	sixth	sixth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	selected	select	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	umvundla	umvundla	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | animals *= animal* | fat |  | the kraal | time |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fat=Theme in kraal=Destination |
| 2 | **select** | past | animals *= animal* *not said here* | the hare |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | animals *= animal* *not said here* | the keeper |  |  |  | of the gate | tree rules |

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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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