Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 46
This juice when drunk has a stupefying effect, and benumbs the limbs so as to make them powerless for a time.
Who acts: juice · What happens: drink, have, stupefy, benumb, make · To what, where: stupefying effect, limbs
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 (juice), 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 juice | det |
| 2 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 drunk | advmod |
| 4 | drunk | drink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 juice | acl |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 effect | det |
| 7 | stupefying | stupefy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 effect | amod |
| 8 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 benumbs | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 benumbs | cc |
| 11 | benumbs | benumb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 has | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 limbs | det |
| 13 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 benumbs | obj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 make | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 benumbs | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | powerless | powerless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 make | xcomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 powerless | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | participle | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | this juice | a stupefying effect | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stupefy | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | benumb | present | this juice not said here | the limbs | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | this juice not said here | limbs = limb | powerless property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
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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