Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 14
When the hunter returned, he found that his pet bird had gone, and he was very angry indeed, so he asked his wife who had let the bird go, and Awo told him.
Who acts: hunter, Agbor, pet bird, bird, Awo · What happens: return, find, go, be, ask, let · To what, where: wife, bird, Agbor · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hunter, Agbor, pet bird, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 returned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hunter | det |
| 3 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 gone | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bird | nmod:poss |
| 10 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bird | compound |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gone | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gone | aux |
| 13 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 found | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 angry | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 angry | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 angry | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 angry | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 angry | advmod |
| 19 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gone | conj |
| 20 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 19 angry | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 asked | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 asked | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 asked | nsubj |
| 24 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wife | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 asked | obj |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 let | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 let | aux |
| 29 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 asked | ccomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bird | det |
| 31 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 let | obj |
| 32 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 let | xcomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 told | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 told | cc |
| 35 | Awo | Awo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 told | nsubj |
| 36 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 told | iobj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the hunter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | Agbor | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past · perfect | Agbor's pet bird | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Agbor | angry, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | Agbor | Agbor's wife | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | let | past · perfect | the bird | who nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | go | infinitive | the bird not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | tell speech: assert | past | Awo | Agbor | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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