Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 108
The rabbit remained in the hole so that he could not see or be seen.
Who acts: COCK · What happens: remain, not see, see · To what, where: rabbit, hole
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rabbit | det |
| 2 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rabbit | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hole | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hole | det |
| 6 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | obl |
| 7 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 12 see | mark |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 so | fixed |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 see | advmod |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 remained | advcl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 seen | cc |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seen | aux:pass |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 see | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rabbit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | participle | the rabbit not said here | the hole | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hole=Location | ||||
| 2 | not see | could | COCK | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive · passive | COCK not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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