Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 107
He then tied his head in such a way that he could not catch the frog’s eye.
Who acts: COCK · What happens: tie, not catch · To what, where: head, way, eye
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tied | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 tied | advmod |
| 3 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tied | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 7 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 way | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tied | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 catch | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 catch | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 catch | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 catch | advmod |
| 14 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tied | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 frog | det |
| 16 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eye | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 frog | case |
| 18 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 catch | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past | COCK | COCK's head | such way | then | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||
| 2 | not catch | could | COCK | the frog's eye | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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