Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 21
During the night a large python came and took one of Oghabi’s legs in his mouth and swallowed it up to the thigh.
Who acts: large python · What happens: come, take, swallow up · To what, where: one, mouth, python
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 (large python), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 python | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 python | amod |
| 6 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 legs | case |
| 12 | Oghabi | Oghabi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 legs | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Oghabi | case |
| 14 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 mouth | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 swallowed | cc |
| 19 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 swallowed | obj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 swallowed | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 thigh | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 thigh | det |
| 24 | thigh | thigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 swallowed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a large python | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | a large python not said here | one of Oghabi's legs | OGHABI's mouth | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent one=Value in mouth=Location | |||
| 3 | swallow up | past | a large python not said here | python | to the thigh | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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