Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong., sentence 18
The goat was not very satisfied with this, but as he did not see any way to get anything else out of the hawk, he had to pretend that he was contented, and took the feather home.
Who acts: goat, hawk · What happens: not be, not see, get, have, pretend, content · To what, where: way, anything, hawk, feather
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, hawk), 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 | 6 satisfied | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 satisfied | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 satisfied | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 satisfied | advmod |
| 6 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 this | case |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 satisfied | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 had | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 had | cc |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 see | advmod |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 had | advcl |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 see | advcl |
| 20 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 get | obj |
| 21 | else | else | ADV | _ | 20 anything | advmod |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 hawk | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 hawk | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hawk | det |
| 25 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 get | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 satisfied | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 pretend | mark |
| 30 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 had | xcomp |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 contented | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 contented | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 contented | aux:pass |
| 34 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 pretend | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 took | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 took | cc |
| 37 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 had | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 feather | det |
| 39 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 took | obj |
| 40 | home | home | ADV | _ | 37 took | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the goat | with this; satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not see | past · do-support | hawk | any way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | hawk not said here | anything | out the hawk | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | have | past | hawk | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | pretend | to-infinitive | hawk not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | content | past · passive | hawk | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | take | past | hawk not said here | the feather | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=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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