Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 104
The rabbit then led the way into the hole, and the cock followed dragging the tie-tie with him.
Who acts: rabbit, cock · What happens: lead, follow, drag · To what, where: way, hole, tie tie
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rabbit, cock), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rabbit | det |
| 2 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 led | advmod |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 hole | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hole | det |
| 9 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 followed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 followed | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cock | det |
| 13 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 followed | nsubj |
| 14 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | conj |
| 15 | dragging | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 followed | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tie | det |
| 17 | tie | tie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tie | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 tie | punct |
| 19 | tie | tie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dragging | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dragging | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the rabbit | the way | the hole | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme into hole=Destination | ||
| 2 | follow | past | the cock | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | drag | gerund | the cock not said here | the tie tie | with rabbit | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tie=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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