Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 69
You have cast away your own for that which you are not sure of.
Who acts: You, that · What happens: cast away, not be · To what, where: own
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 (You, that), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 cast | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cast | aux |
| 3 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 cast | advmod |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 own | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cast | obl |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 sure | mark |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 sure | nsubj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 sure | ccomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 sure | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sure | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 sure | advmod |
| 13 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cast | advcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sure | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast away | present · perfect | You | your own | away property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | not is | present | that | which ccomp; you nsubj; sure property | tree rules |
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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