Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 12
Misfortune of soup made of shanks and feet.
What happens: make · To what, where: soup, Misfortune
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 soup | case |
| 3 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Misfortune | nmod |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 soup | acl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 shanks | case |
| 6 | shanks | shank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 feet | cc |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 shanks | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Misfortune | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | soup not said here | of shanks and feet | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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.
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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