Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 128
In connection with these creatures, it is curious to notice the agitation amongst the birds, should one happen to be disturbed in the day time.
Who acts: game, one · What happens: be, notice, happen, disturb · To what, where: connection, agitation
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 (game, one), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 connection | case |
| 2 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 curious | obl |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 creatures | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 creatures | det |
| 5 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 connection | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 connection | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 curious | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 curious | cop |
| 9 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 notice | mark |
| 11 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 curious | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 agitation | det |
| 13 | agitation | agitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 notice | obj |
| 14 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 16 birds | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 birds | det |
| 16 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 agitation | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 happen | punct |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 happen | aux |
| 19 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 happen | nsubj |
| 20 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 notice | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 disturbed | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 disturbed | aux:pass |
| 23 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 happen | advcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 time | det |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 time | compound |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 disturbed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 curious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | game | connection with this creatures | curious property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | notice | to-infinitive | game not said here | the agitation | amongst the birds | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer agitation=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | happen | should | one | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | disturb | to-infinitive · passive | one not said here | time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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