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title: The hare answered, mocking: “Please let me have this little bit only.” — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: The hare answered, mocking: “Please let me have this little bit only.” Who acts: hare, inkalimeva. 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 57

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The hare answered, mocking: “Please let me have this little bit only.”

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**Who acts:** hare, inkalimeva · **What happens:** answer, mock, let, have · **To what, where:** inkalimeva, little bit · **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 (hare, inkalimeva), 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:pg71335:24:57
# text = The hare answered, mocking: “Please let me have this little bit only.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hare	hare	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	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Please	please	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	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 hare |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mock** | gerund | the hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | the hare *not said here* | the inkalimeva *= inkalimeva* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive | the inkalimeva *= inkalimeva* *not said here* | this little bit |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient |

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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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