Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 139
A saying applied to any intricate question.
What happens: apply · To what, where: saying
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 saying | det |
| 2 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | applied | apply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 saying | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 question | case |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 question | det |
| 6 | intricate | intricate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 question | amod |
| 7 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 applied | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apply | participle | a saying not said here | to any intricate question | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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