Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong., sentence 14
The goat allowed the little chicken to run about, and went out himself to get some food.
Who acts: goat, little chicken · What happens: allow, run about, go out, get · To what, where: little chicken, rat, food
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 (goat, little chicken), 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 goat | det |
| 2 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 allowed | nsubj |
| 3 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chicken | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chicken | amod |
| 6 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 allowed | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 run | mark |
| 8 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 allowed | xcomp |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 run | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 allowed | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 went | compound:prt |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 went | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 went | advcl |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 food | det |
| 18 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past | the goat | the little chicken | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer chicken=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | run about not said to happen | to-infinitive | the little chicken not said here | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | the goat not said here | rat | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | the goat not said here | some food | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus |
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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