Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 203
No man was ever so skilful and successful in the pursuit of game as he.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, pursue · To what, where: pursuit, game
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 (man), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 skilful | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 skilful | cop |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 skilful | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 skilful | advmod |
| 6 | skilful | skilful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 successful | cc |
| 8 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 skilful | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 pursuit | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pursuit | det |
| 11 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 successful | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 game | case |
| 13 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pursuit | nmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 he | case |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pursuit | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 skilful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | no man | ever | skilful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | no man not said here | the pursuit of game as man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pursue | game | as man | nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient as=obl |
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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