Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 116
When he heard it was the cock and the rabbit, he appointed the cock to be the head man of the house, and gave him power to wake everybody at daylight and tell them it was time to go and work.
Who acts: COCK, juice · What happens: hear, be, appoint, give, wake, tell · To what, where: cock, head man, power, everybody, daylight, houses · 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 (COCK, juice), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 appointed | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cock | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cock | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cock | det |
| 7 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rabbit | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rabbit | det |
| 10 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cock | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 appointed | nsubj |
| 13 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cock | det |
| 15 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 appointed | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 man | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 man | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 man | compound |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cock | acl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 man | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gave | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 gave | cc |
| 26 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 appointed | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 gave | iobj |
| 28 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gave | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 wake | mark |
| 30 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 gave | advcl |
| 31 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 30 wake | obj |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 daylight | case |
| 33 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 wake | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 tell | cc |
| 35 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 wake | conj |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 tell | iobj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 time | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 time | cop |
| 39 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tell | ccomp |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 go | mark |
| 41 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 time | acl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 work | cc |
| 43 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 go | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | COCK | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | juice | the cock and the rabbit | the rabbit conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | appoint | past | COCK | the cock | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | COCK not said here | the head man | of the house | tree rules | |||
| 5 | give | past | COCK not said here | power | COCK | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient power=Theme | |||
| 6 | wake | to-infinitive | COCK not said here | everybody | daylight | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent everybody=Patient | |||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | COCK not said here | houses = house | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | is a | past | juice | time | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | go | to-infinitive | COCK not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 10 | work | infinitive | COCK not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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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