Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 95
I, the adhesive grass, will stick fast to you.
What happens: stick · To what, where: you, adhesive grass
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 grass | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 grass | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grass | det |
| 4 | adhesive | adhesive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grass | amod |
| 5 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stick | punct |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 stick | aux |
| 8 | stick | stick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 grass | parataxis |
| 9 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 stick | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 stick | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | future | you | fast property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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