Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 52
Said of any one who has come to a resolution without yet expressing it.
Who acts: one · What happens: come, express · To what, where: resolution
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), 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 | Said | Said | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 one | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 one | case |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 one | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 resolution | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 resolution | det |
| 10 | resolution | resolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 expressing | mark |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 expressing | advmod |
| 13 | expressing | express | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 come | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 expressing | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | any one Said | a resolution | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to resolution=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | express | gerund | any one Said not said here | resolution | yet | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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