Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xviii.--how the River Came Into Existence; Or, Why a Crab Has No Head., sentence 7
The crab then went up to the animal and killed it with a stick; having thrown the arrow away he would put the animal on one side as his own.
Who acts: crab · What happens: go up, kill, throw away, put · To what, where: net, arrow, animal, one side
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 (crab), 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 crab | det |
| 2 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 went | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 animal | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 animal | det |
| 8 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 killed | cc |
| 10 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 killed | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 stick | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stick | det |
| 14 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 killed | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 thrown | punct |
| 16 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 thrown | aux |
| 17 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 killed | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 arrow | det |
| 19 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thrown | obj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 thrown | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 put | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 put | aux |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 thrown | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 animal | det |
| 25 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 side | case |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 side | nummod |
| 28 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obl |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 own | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 own | nmod:poss |
| 31 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 put | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | the crab | then | to the animal | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | kill | past | the crab not said here | net | with a stick | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with stick=Instrument | |||
| 3 | throw away | gerund · perfect | the arrow | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put | would | crab | the animal | one side | as crab's own | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme on side=Destination |
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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