Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xviii.--how the River Came Into Existence; Or, Why a Crab Has No Head., sentence 22
The water came back into the pond at once and both the elephant and the hawk had a good drink and wash.
Who acts: water, elephant · What happens: come back, have, wash · To what, where: pond, good drink
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 (water, 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 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 pond | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pond | det |
| 7 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 came | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 11 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 elephant | det |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 elephant | det |
| 13 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hawk | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hawk | det |
| 16 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 elephant | conj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 drink | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 drink | amod |
| 20 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wash | cc |
| 22 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 had | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the water | the pond | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into pond=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | have | past | both elephant and the hawk | a good drink | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wash | infinitive | both elephant and the hawk not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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