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title: Little Jackal let down a rope made of mouse skins, and when Lion cli… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: Little Jackal let down a rope made of mouse skins, and when Lion climbed a little way up, the rope broke, and he fell and was hurt. Who acts: Little Jackal, Lion, rope. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 71

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Little Jackal let down a rope made of mouse skins, and when Lion climbed a little way up, the rope broke, and he fell and was hurt.

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**Who acts:** Little Jackal, Lion, rope · **What happens:** let down, make, climb, break, fall, hurt · **To what, where:** rope, little way

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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 (Little Jackal, Lion, rope), 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:pg71335:25:71
# text = Little Jackal let down a rope made of mouse skins, and when Lion climbed a little way up, the rope broke, and he fell and was hurt.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Jackal	Jackal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	up	up	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let down** | past | Little Jackal | a rope |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a rope *not said here* |  |  |  | of mouse skins | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **climb** | past | Lion | a little way |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location way=Theme |
| 4 | **break** | past | the rope |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **fall** | past | rope |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **hurt** | past · passive | rope *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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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