Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 196

This saying is used to denote a very greedy person, one who is so greedy as to fasten his dog to a shrub that the animal may not beg for food while he is eating.

Who acts: one, animal, saying · What happens: use, denote, be, fasten, not beg, eat · To what, where: saying, greedy person, dog, shrub

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 (one, animal, 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 saying	det
2	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 used	aux:pass
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 denote	mark
6	denote	denote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 person	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 greedy	advmod
9	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 person	amod
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 denote	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 greedy	punct
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 greedy	nsubj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 greedy	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 greedy	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 greedy	advmod
16	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 person	acl:relcl
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 fasten	mark
18	to	to	PART	_	19 fasten	mark
19	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 greedy	advcl
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 dog	nmod:poss
21	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fasten	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 shrub	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 shrub	det
24	shrub	shrub	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fasten	obl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 beg	obj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 animal	det
27	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 beg	nsubj
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 beg	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 beg	advmod
30	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 shrub	acl:relcl
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 food	case
32	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 beg	obl
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 eating	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 eating	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 eating	aux
36	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 beg	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive		this saying		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	denote	to-infinitive		a greedy person		vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot person=Topic
3	is	present	one		a greedy person nsubj; greedy property	tree rules
4	fasten	to-infinitive	one not said here	saying's dog	to a shrub	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient to shrub=Co-Patient
5	not beg speech: request	may	the animal	a shrub	for food	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent that=Recipient for food=Topic
6	eat	present · progressive	saying			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 196

The tree

Pragmatics

Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 196