Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 95
When they reached the farm, the cock flew up to the top of a high tree to watch and see what happened to everybody.
Who acts: houses, cock · What happens: reach, fly up, watch, see, happen · To what, where: farm · 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 (houses, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 flew | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 farm | det |
| 5 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cock | det |
| 8 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flew | nsubj |
| 9 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 flew | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 top | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 top | det |
| 13 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flew | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 16 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tree | amod |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 top | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 watch | mark |
| 19 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 flew | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 see | cc |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 watch | conj |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 happened | nsubj |
| 23 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 everybody | case |
| 25 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 23 happened | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | houses = house | the farm | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent farm=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly up | past | the cock | to the top of a high tree result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to top=Result | ||||
| 3 | watch | to-infinitive | the cock not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | the cock not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | happen | past | to everybody; what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP 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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