Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 7
One day Agbor caught a small bird in one of his traps, so he took it out very carefully and carried it home.
Who acts: Agbor · What happens: catch, take out, carry · To what, where: small bird, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | nsubj |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bird | amod |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 caught | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 traps | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 traps | nmod:poss |
| 12 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 took | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 took | compound:prt |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 carefully | advmod |
| 20 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 16 took | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 carried | cc |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 carried | obj |
| 24 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 carried | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Agbor | a small bird | day | in one of Agbor's traps | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||
| 2 | take out | past | Agbor | bird | carefully property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | carry | past | Agbor not said here | bird | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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