Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong., sentence 3
Now these mushrooms are very good in palm-oil chop, and the goat thought he would like to eat them.
Who acts: mushrooms, goat, he · What happens: be, think, like, eat · To what, where: palm oil chop, mushrooms · 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 (mushrooms, goat, he), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 good | advmod |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 mushrooms | det |
| 3 | mushrooms | mushroom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 good | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 good | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 good | advmod |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 chop | case |
| 8 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chop | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 palm | punct |
| 10 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chop | compound |
| 11 | chop | chop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 good | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 goat | det |
| 15 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 good | conj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 like | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 like | aux |
| 19 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 eat | mark |
| 21 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 like | xcomp |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 eat | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this mushrooms | palm oil chop | now | good property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the goat | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | like | would | he | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | mushrooms = mushroom | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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