Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 71
XVII.--HOW CHIEF ALANKOR AND ALL HIS FAMILY WERE KILLED BY A BIG FROG, OR WHY THE COCK CROWS AT DAWN.
Who acts: BIG FROG, COCK · What happens: kill, crow · To what, where: XVII
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 (BIG FROG, 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 | XVII | xvii | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 KILLED | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 XVII | punct |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 ALANKOR | punct |
| 4 | HOW | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 CHIEF | advmod |
| 5 | CHIEF | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ALANKOR | amod |
| 6 | ALANKOR | ALANKOR | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 XVII | conj |
| 7 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 FAMILY | cc |
| 8 | ALL | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 FAMILY | det:predet |
| 9 | HIS | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 FAMILY | nmod:poss |
| 10 | FAMILY | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 XVII | conj |
| 11 | WERE | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 KILLED | aux:pass |
| 12 | KILLED | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | BY | by | ADP | _ | 16 FROG | case |
| 14 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 FROG | det |
| 15 | BIG | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 FROG | amod |
| 16 | FROG | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 KILLED | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 CROWS | punct |
| 18 | OR | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 CROWS | cc |
| 19 | WHY | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 CROWS | advmod |
| 20 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 COCK | det |
| 21 | COCK | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 CROWS | nsubj |
| 22 | CROWS | crow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 KILLED | advcl |
| 23 | AT | at | ADP | _ | 24 DAWN | case |
| 24 | DAWN | DAWN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 CROWS | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 KILLED | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | a BIG FROG | XVII and CHIEF ALANKOR and ALANKOR's FAMILY | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | crow | present | the COCK | at DAWN | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at dawn=Stimulus |
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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