Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 150
He has gone in pursuit of the (fabulous) birds of the sea.
Who acts: saying · What happens: go, pursue · To what, where: pursuit, fabulous birds
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | aux |
| 3 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 pursuit | case |
| 5 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gone | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 birds | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 birds | det |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 fabulous | punct |
| 9 | fabulous | fabulous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 birds | amod |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 fabulous | punct |
| 11 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pursuit | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 birds | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · perfect | saying | pursuit of the fabulous birds of the sea | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pursuit=Location | ||||
| 2 | pursue | the fabulous birds of the sea | nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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