diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 39641fa..3ca8140 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ At least with [Apache Jena SHACL](https://jena.apache.org/documentation/shacl/in
 
 If you take our [template repo](https://github.com/skohub-io/vocab-template) as a starting point the validation against this shape is already built in.
 
+Run `scripts/messages.sh` to get a list of shape messages to summarize the constraints checked by shapes.
+
 ## Check with Apache Jena SHACL
 
 To use this shape with [Apache Jena](https://jena.apache.org/download/index.cgi) SHACL validate your file with `shacl validate --shapes skos.shacl.ttl --data YOUR-DATA.ttl`
diff --git a/scripts/messages.rq b/scripts/messages.rq
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6ef9ac4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/messages.rq
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+prefix sh: <http://www.w3.org/ns/shacl#>
+
+SELECT DISTINCT ?type ?msg {
+  ?shape sh:message ?msg .
+  #FILTER (lang(?msg) = 'en')
+
+  OPTIONAL { ?shape sh:severity ?severity }
+  BIND(STRAFTER(STR(COALESCE(?severity,sh:Violation)),'#') as ?type)
+
+  #filter(regex(?msg,"S[0-9]+"))
+} ORDER BY ?type
diff --git a/scripts/messages.sh b/scripts/messages.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..581981c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/messages.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+sparql() {
+  data=$1
+  query=$2
+  docker run --rm -v $query:/rdf/query.rq --mount type=bind,source=$data,target=/rdf/data.ttl skohub/jena:4.6.1 arq --data /rdf/data.ttl --query /rdf/query.rq --results=TSV
+}
+
+sparql $(pwd)/skos.shacl.ttl $(pwd)/scripts/messages.rq
diff --git a/skos.shacl.ttl b/skos.shacl.ttl
index 65f0afa..a62f106 100644
--- a/skos.shacl.ttl
+++ b/skos.shacl.ttl
@@ -43,14 +43,14 @@ skos:
     sh:minCount 1;
     sh:severity sh:Warning ;
     sh:datatype rdf:langString ;
-    sh:message "Each skos:Concept has to provide a skos:prefLabel"
+    sh:message "Each skos:Concept should provide a skos:prefLabel"
   ] ;
   sh:property [
     sh:description "S14 A resource has no more than one value of skos:prefLabel per language tag." ;
     sh:path skos:prefLabel ;
     sh:datatype rdf:langString ;
     sh:uniqueLang true ;
-    sh:message "Each skos:Concept has to provide a unique language for skos:prefLabel" ;
+    sh:message "S14: Each skos:Concept has to provide a unique language for skos:prefLabel" ;
   ] ;
   sh:property [
     sh:path skos:altLabel ;
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ skos:
   # min count is checked above
   sh:property [
     sh:path skos:prefLabel ;
-    sh:description "\"Constraint S13: skos:prefLabel, skos:altLabel and skos:hiddenLabel must be disjoint\"" ;
+    sh:message "S13: skos:prefLabel, skos:altLabel and skos:hiddenLabel must be disjoint" ;
     sh:disjoint skos:altLabel ;
     sh:disjoint skos:hiddenLabel ;
     # sh:minCount 1 ;
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ skos:
   ] ;
   sh:property [
     sh:path skos:altLabel ;
-    sh:description "\"Constraint S13: skos:prefLabel, skos:altLabel and skos:hiddenLabel must be disjoint\"" ;
+    sh:message "S13: skos:prefLabel, skos:altLabel and skos:hiddenLabel must be disjoint" ;
     sh:disjoint skos:hiddenLabel ;
     sh:disjoint skos:prefLabel ;
     sh:name "alt label" ;
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ skos:
   # ] ;
   sh:property [
     sh:path skos:related ;
-    sh:description "S27 skos:related is disjoint with the property skos:broaderTransitive." ;
+    sh:message "S27: skos:related is disjoint with the property skos:broaderTransitive" ;
     sh:disjoint skos:broader ;
     sh:disjoint skos:broaderTransitive ;
     sh:disjoint skos:narrower ;
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ skos:
     a sh:SPARQLConstraint ;
     sh:prefixes skos: ;
     rdfs:comment "Ambiguous Notation References" ;
-    sh:description "Concepts should not have identlical skos:notation literals." ;
+    sh:description "Concepts should not have identical skos:notation literals." ;
     sh:message "the concept has the same notation {$value} as {$path}" ;
     sh:select """
     SELECT $this (?other as ?path) ?value