Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 84
Eba was very frightened, but continued to look at the frog until suddenly he caught its eye, when he dropped down dead.
Who acts: Eba · What happens: be, continue, look, catch, drop down · To what, where: eye
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 (Eba), 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 | Eba | Eba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 frightened | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 frightened | advmod |
| 4 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 continued | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 continued | cc |
| 7 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 continued | xcomp |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 frog | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 frog | det |
| 12 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | obl |
| 13 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 caught | mark |
| 14 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 16 caught | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 caught | nsubj |
| 16 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 look | advcl |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eye | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caught | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dropped | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 dropped | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 dropped | nsubj |
| 22 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 continued | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 dropped | compound:prt |
| 24 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dropped | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Eba | frightened property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | at the frog | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at frog=Theme | |||||
| 4 | catch | past | Eba | FROG's eye | suddenly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 5 | drop down | past | Eba | dead property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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