Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 128
The saying implies anything long expected, but which never occurs.
Who acts: saying · What happens: imply, expect, not occur · To what, where: anything
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: who acts (saying), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 saying | det |
| 2 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 implies | nsubj |
| 3 | implies | imply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 implies | obj |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 expected | advmod |
| 6 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 anything | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 occurs | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 occurs | cc |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 occurs | nsubj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 occurs | advmod |
| 11 | occurs | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 implies | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 implies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imply | present | the saying | anything | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anything=Topic | ||||
| 2 | expect | participle | long property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not occur | present | which nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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