Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 182
There is no wormwood that comes into flower and does not wither.
Who acts: wormwood · What happens: be, come, not wither · To what, where: flower
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 (wormwood), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 wormwood | det |
| 4 | wormwood | wormwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 comes | nsubj |
| 6 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wormwood | acl:relcl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 flower | case |
| 8 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comes | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wither | cc |
| 10 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wither | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 wither | advmod |
| 12 | wither | wither | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 comes | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no wormwood | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | present | no wormwood | flower | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into flower=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | not wither | present · do-support | no wormwood not said here | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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