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title: It is capable of indefinite extension by the narrator, but the trick… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: It is capable of indefinite extension by the narrator, but the tricks of Little Jackal are always very silly ones. Who acts: story, tricks. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Story of Lion and Little Jackal., sentence 3

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It is capable of indefinite extension by the narrator, but the tricks of Little Jackal are always very silly ones.

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**Who acts:** story, tricks · **What happens:** be, trick · **To what, where:** silly ones, Little Jackal

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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 (story, tricks), 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:pg71335:39:3
# text = It is capable of indefinite extension by the narrator, but the tricks of Little Jackal are always very silly ones.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	capable	capable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	indefinite	indefinite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	extension	extension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Jackal	Jackal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | story |  |  |  |  | of indefinite extension by the narrator; capable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the tricks of Little Jackal | silly ones |  |  |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **trick** |  |  | Little Jackal |  |  |  |  | nom trick «act transitive»: of=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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