Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 163
It is as if one said, You are like an infant crawling towards the fire circle (in the middle of a Kaffir hut), who is sure to get burnt.
Who acts: It, You, infant crawling · What happens: be, get · 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 (It, You, infant crawling), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | cop |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 said | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 said | mark |
| 5 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 8 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 crawling | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 crawling | cop |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 crawling | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 crawling | det |
| 12 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 crawling | amod |
| 13 | crawling | crawling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 circle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 circle | det |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 circle | compound |
| 17 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crawling | nmod |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 middle | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 middle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 middle | det |
| 21 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 circle | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 hut | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hut | det |
| 24 | Kaffir | Kaffir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 hut | compound |
| 25 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 middle | nmod |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 middle | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 sure | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 sure | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 sure | cop |
| 30 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 crawling | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 get | mark |
| 32 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 sure | xcomp |
| 33 | burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 get | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: assert | present | It | one nsubj; say property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | You | like a infant crawling; towards the fire circle | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a infant crawling | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | a infant crawling not said here | burnt property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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