Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 13
One day, while Agbor and his slave Edim were absent in the bush hunting, one of Awo’s daughters opened the cage and let the bird fly away.
Who acts: Agbor, One day, bird · What happens: be, open, let, fly away · To what, where: One day, bush hunting, cage, 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, One day, bird), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 absent | punct |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 absent | mark |
| 5 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 absent | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 slave | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 slave | nmod:poss |
| 8 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Agbor | conj |
| 9 | Edim | Edim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 slave | appos |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 absent | cop |
| 11 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hunting | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hunting | det |
| 14 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hunting | compound |
| 15 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 absent | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 one | punct |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hunting | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 daughters | case |
| 19 | Awo | Awo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Awo | case |
| 21 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 22 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cage | det |
| 24 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 opened | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 let | cc |
| 26 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 opened | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bird | det |
| 28 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 let | obj |
| 29 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 let | xcomp |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 fly | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Agbor and Agbor's slave | One day not said here | the bush hunting | absent property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | open | past | One day | the cage | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | One day not said here | the bird | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fly away | infinitive | the bird not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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