Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 109
The cock then called out to the frog to make all the people come to life again at once or else he and the rabbit would kill him.
Who acts: people, COCK · What happens: call out, make, come, kill · To what, where: cock, frog, life, rabbit
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 (people, 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 cock | det |
| 2 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 called | advmod |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 called | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 frog | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 frog | det |
| 8 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 called | advcl |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 people | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 come | nsubj |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 once | case |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 27 kill | advmod |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 else | cc |
| 21 | else | else | ADV | _ | 19 once | conj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 kill | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rabbit | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rabbit | det |
| 25 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 he | conj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 kill | aux |
| 27 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 come | advcl |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 kill | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | participle · passive | the cock | the frog | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to frog=Recipient | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | come | present | all people | life | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | kill | would | COCK | rabbit | once property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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