Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong., sentence 12
He then sat down to watch, and very soon a hen came along who, being very hungry, swallowed the young rat.
Who acts: rat, hen · What happens: sit down, watch, come along, be, swallow · To what, where: young rat
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, hen), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | advmod |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 watch | mark |
| 6 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sat | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 came | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hen | det |
| 12 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 14 | along | along | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 came | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hungry | punct |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 hungry | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 hungry | advmod |
| 19 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 came | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 swallowed | punct |
| 21 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rat | det |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 rat | amod |
| 24 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 swallowed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | rat | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | rat not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come along | past | a hen | who advcl; along, soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | gerund | a hen not said here | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | swallow | past | rat not said here | the young rat | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Patient |
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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