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title: Lion was very glad, and said to Little Jackal: “I will continue hunt… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Lion was very glad, and said to Little Jackal: “I will continue hunting while you go to my house and call my children to carry the meat home.” Who acts: Lion, Little Jackal. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 5

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Lion was very glad, and said to Little Jackal: “I will continue hunting while you go to my house and call my children to carry the meat home.”

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**Who acts:** Lion, Little Jackal · **What happens:** be, say, continue, hunt, go, call · **To what, where:** Little Jackal, house, children, meat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of Lion and Little Jackal.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, Little Jackal), 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:pg71335:25:5
# text = Lion was very glad, and said to Little Jackal: “I will continue hunting while you go to my house and call my children to carry the meat home.”
1	Lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Jackal	Jackal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
16	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	home	home	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Lion |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Lion *not said here* |  | Little Jackal |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to jackal=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **continue** *in a quote* | future | Lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **hunt** *in a quote* | gerund | Lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **go** *in a quote* | present | Little Jackal *= jackal* |  |  | my house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **call** *in a quote* | infinitive | Lion *not said here* |  | my children |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Recipient |
| 7 | **carry** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Lion *not said here* | the meat |  |  |  | home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=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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