Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xviii.--how the River Came Into Existence; Or, Why a Crab Has No Head., sentence 16
The elephant’s wife then brought the soup she had made, and the elephant and the hawk sat down together and finished it.
Who acts: wife, elephant · What happens: bring, make, sit down, finish · To what, where: soup
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xviii.--how the River Came Into Existence; Or, Why a Crab Has No Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, elephant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 elephant | det |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 elephant | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | nsubj |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 brought | advmod |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 soup | det |
| 8 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obj |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 soup | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sat | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sat | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 elephant | det |
| 15 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sat | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hawk | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hawk | det |
| 18 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 elephant | conj |
| 19 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | parataxis |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 sat | compound:prt |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 sat | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 finished | cc |
| 23 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sat | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 finished | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the elephant's wife | the soup | then | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent soup=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | past · perfect | wife | the soup not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soup=Product | ||||
| 3 | sit down | past | the elephant and the hawk | together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | finish | past | the elephant and the hawk not said here | soup | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |
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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