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title: It repeated this cry several times, calling out very loudly. — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: It repeated this cry several times, calling out very loudly. Who acts: coney. 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 8

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It repeated this cry several times, calling out very loudly.

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**Who acts:** coney · **What happens:** repeat, call out · **To what, where:** cry

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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 (coney), 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:pg71335:24:8
# text = It repeated this cry several times, calling out very loudly.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | past | coney | this cry |  |  | time |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Eventuality |
| 2 | **call out** *speech: assert* | gerund | coney *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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