Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 123
A few hunters go out with their long Dane guns and station themselves one under each tree.
Who acts: few hunters · What happens: go out
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few hunters), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hunters | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hunters | amod |
| 3 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 guns | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 guns | nmod:poss |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 guns | amod |
| 9 | Dane | Dane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 guns | compound |
| 10 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 station | cc |
| 12 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 guns | conj |
| 13 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 12 station | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 station | appos |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 tree | det |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | present | a few hunters | with hunters's long Dane guns and station hunters; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with gun=Co-Agent |
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: «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Project Gutenberg book 70959 (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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