Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 113
The cock and the rabbit then untied the frog and threw him into the river: they then returned and squeezed the juice of the leaves into the eyes of all the people and animals, and they woke up immediately, none the worse for their experience but very frightened.
Who acts: cock, people · What happens: untie, throw, return, squeeze, wake up, experience · To what, where: frog, COCK, river, juice, eyes
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, 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 cock | det |
| 2 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 untied | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 rabbit | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rabbit | det |
| 5 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cock | conj |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 untied | advmod |
| 7 | untied | untie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 frog | det |
| 9 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 untied | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 threw | cc |
| 11 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 untied | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 threw | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 river | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 river | det |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 threw | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 returned | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 returned | nsubj |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 returned | advmod |
| 19 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 untied | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 squeezed | cc |
| 21 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 returned | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 juice | det |
| 23 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 squeezed | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 leaves | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 leaves | det |
| 26 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 juice | nmod |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 eyes | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 eyes | det |
| 29 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 squeezed | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 people | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 people | det:predet |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 people | det |
| 33 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 eyes | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 animals | cc |
| 35 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 people | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 woke | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 woke | cc |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 woke | nsubj |
| 39 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 untied | conj |
| 40 | up | up | ADP | _ | 39 woke | compound:prt |
| 41 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 39 woke | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 worse | punct |
| 43 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 45 worse | nsubj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 worse | det |
| 45 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 woke | parataxis |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 experience | case |
| 47 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 experience | nmod:poss |
| 48 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 worse | obl |
| 49 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 51 frightened | cc |
| 50 | very | very | ADV | _ | 51 frightened | advmod |
| 51 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 worse | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 untied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | untie | past | the cock and the rabbit | the frog | then | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient | |||
| 2 | throw | past | the cock and the rabbit not said here | COCK | into the river result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into river=Result | |||
| 3 | return | past | people | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | squeeze | past | people not said here | the juice of the leaves | the eyes of all people and animals | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent juice=Material into eye=Product | |||
| 5 | wake up | past | people | immediately property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | experience | people | nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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