Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong., sentence 10
The rat said he was willing to do so, and gave the goat one of his small children.
Who acts: rat · What happens: say, be, do, give · To what, where: one, goat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rat), 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 rat | det |
| 2 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 willing | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 willing | cop |
| 6 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 willing | xcomp |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 do | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 goat | det |
| 14 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 gave | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 children | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 children | nmod:poss |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 children | amod |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the rat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | rat | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | rat not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | give | past | the rat not said here | one of rat's small children | the goat | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent goat=Recipient one=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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