Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 14
The kind of soup spoken of is very lightly esteemed by the Kaffirs.
Who acts: Kaffirs · What happens: speak, esteem · To what, where: kind · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Kaffirs), 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 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 esteemed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 soup | case |
| 4 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
| 5 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 kind | acl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 spoken | obl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 esteemed | aux:pass |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 lightly | advmod |
| 9 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 10 esteemed | advmod |
| 10 | esteemed | esteem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Kaffirs | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Kaffirs | det |
| 13 | Kaffirs | kaffir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 esteemed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 esteemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | participle | the kind of soup not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | esteem | present · passive | the Kaffirs | the kind of soup | lightly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
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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