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title: A saying applied to one whose ambitious aspirations are not likely t… — Kaffir folk-lore · tree and pragmatics
description: A saying applied to one whose ambitious aspirations are not likely to be realized. Who acts: saying. A sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Kaffir folk-lore, Proverbs and Figurative Expressions., sentence 151

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A saying applied to one whose ambitious aspirations are not likely to be realized.

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**Who acts:** saying · **What happens:** apply, not be, realize · **To what, where:** saying, one

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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 (saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg71335:26:151
# text = A saying applied to one whose ambitious aspirations are not likely to be realized.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	saying	saying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	ambitious	ambitious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	aspirations	aspiration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	realized	realize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **apply** | participle |  | a saying *not said here* | one  ambitious aspirations |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | a saying |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **realize** | to-infinitive · passive | a saying *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING» |

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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.

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**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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