Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 10
Then, for some time, Agbor took much trouble in taming the bird, and taught it to sing.
Who acts: Agbor · What happens: take, tame, teach, sing · To what, where: much trouble, bird
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Agbor), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 took | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 7 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 trouble | amod |
| 10 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 taming | mark |
| 12 | taming | tame | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 took | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taming | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 taught | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 taught | cc |
| 17 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 taught | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 sing | mark |
| 20 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 taught | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Agbor | much trouble | then; time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Theme | |||
| 2 | tame | gerund | Agbor not said here | the bird | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bird=Patient | ||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | past | Agbor not said here | bird | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | to-infinitive | Agbor not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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