Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 183
A proverb descriptive of the life of man.
To what, where: proverb
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 proverb | det |
| 2 | proverb | proverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | descriptive | descriptive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 proverb | amod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 life | det |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 descriptive | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 life | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 proverb | 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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