Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xviii.--how the River Came Into Existence; Or, Why a Crab Has No Head., sentence 20

Then the hawk, who was also very thirsty, went down to the pond with the elephant, and together they dug the mud out until at last they came across the crab.

Who acts: hawk · What happens: be, go down, dig out, come · To what, where: mud, last

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 (hawk), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hawk	det
3	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thirsty	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 thirsty	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thirsty	cop
7	also	also	ADV	_	9 thirsty	advmod
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 thirsty	advmod
9	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hawk	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hawk	punct
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 pond	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pond	det
15	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 elephant	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 elephant	det
18	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pond	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dug	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 dug	cc
21	together	together	ADV	_	23 dug	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 dug	nsubj
23	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 went	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mud	det
25	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dug	obj
26	out	out	ADP	_	23 dug	compound:prt
27	until	until	SCONJ	_	31 came	mark
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 last	case
29	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 came	obl
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 came	nsubj
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 dug	advcl
32	across	across	ADP	_	34 crab	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 crab	det
34	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 came	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the hawk				thirsty property	tree rules
2	go down	past	the hawk			then	to the pond with the elephant; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	dig out	past	hawk	the mud			together property	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mud=Theme
4	come	past	hawk		last		across the crab	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across crab=Initial_Location

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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xviii.--how the River Came Into Existence; Or, Why a Crab Has No Head., sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xviii.--how the River Came Into Existence; Or, Why a Crab Has No Head., sentence 20