Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 9
This saying is used to denote anything unusually grand.
What happens: use, denote · To what, where: saying, anything
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 used | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 used | aux:pass |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 denote | mark |
| 6 | denote | denote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 used | advcl |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 denote | obj |
| 8 | unusually | unusually | ADV | _ | 9 grand | advmod |
| 9 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 anything | amod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present · passive | this saying | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | denote | to-infinitive | anything | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anything=Topic |
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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