Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 165
To skin a mouse.
To what, where: skin
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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 skin | mark |
| 2 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mouse | det |
| 4 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 skin | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 skin | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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