Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 13
Applied to any person who never does well, but is always getting into scrapes.
Who acts: person · What happens: apply, not do, get · To what, where: scrapes
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 (person), 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 | Applied | apply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 person | case |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 person | det |
| 4 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Applied | obl |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 does | nsubj |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 does | advmod |
| 7 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 person | acl:relcl |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 does | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 getting | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 getting | cc |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 getting | aux |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 getting | advmod |
| 13 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Applied | advcl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 scrapes | case |
| 15 | scrapes | scrape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 getting | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Applied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apply | participle | to any person | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not do | present | any person | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get | present · progressive | scrapes | always property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into scrape=Destination |
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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