Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 37
A warning used to deter any one from being led into a snare of any kind.
What happens: use, deter, lead, snare · To what, where: warning, one, snare, kind
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 warning | det |
| 2 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 warning | acl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 deter | mark |
| 5 | deter | deter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | advcl |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deter | obj |
| 8 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 10 led | mark |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 led | aux:pass |
| 10 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 one | acl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 snare | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 snare | det |
| 13 | snare | snare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 led | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 kind | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 kind | det |
| 16 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 snare | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 warning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | a warning not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | deter | to-infinitive | any one | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer one=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | lead | gerund · passive | any one not said here | a snare of any kind | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: into snare=Destination | ||||
| 5 | snare | any kind | nom snare «cognition transitive»: of=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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