Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 41
This saying is applied to any thing or person considered very beautiful.
What happens: apply, consider · To what, where: saying, person
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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 saying | det |
| 2 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 applied | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 applied | aux:pass |
| 4 | applied | apply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 thing | case |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 thing | det |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 applied | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 person | cc |
| 9 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thing | conj |
| 10 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 person | acl |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 beautiful | advmod |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 considered | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 applied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apply | present · passive | this saying | to any thing or person | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | consider | participle | person not said here | beautiful property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: 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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