Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 112
The frog then pointed to some leaves growing near and told the cock to gather them, and to squeeze the juice into the eyes of the people and animals, and they would all wake up.
Who acts: frog, leaves, people · What happens: point, grow, tell, gather, squeeze, wake up · To what, where: leaves, cock, people, juice, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (frog, leaves, people), 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 frog | det |
| 2 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pointed | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 pointed | advmod |
| 4 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 leaves | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 leaves | det |
| 7 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pointed | obl |
| 8 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 leaves | acl |
| 9 | near | near | ADV | _ | 8 growing | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pointed | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cock | det |
| 13 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | iobj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 gather | mark |
| 15 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 told | xcomp |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gather | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 squeeze | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 squeeze | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 squeeze | mark |
| 20 | squeeze | squeeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 gather | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 juice | det |
| 22 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 squeeze | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 eyes | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 eyes | det |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 squeeze | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 people | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 people | det |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 eyes | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 animals | cc |
| 30 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 people | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 wake | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 wake | cc |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 wake | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 wake | aux |
| 35 | all | all | ADV | _ | 36 wake | advmod |
| 36 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pointed | conj |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 wake | compound:prt |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | past | the frog | some leaves | then | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to leaf=Recipient | |||
| 2 | grow | gerund | some leaves not said here | near property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the frog not said here | the cock | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent cock=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | gather not said to happen | to-infinitive | the frog not said here | people | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | squeeze | to-infinitive | the frog not said here | the juice | the eyes of the people and animals | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent juice=Material into eye=Product | |||
| 6 | wake up | would | people | all property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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