Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong., sentence 35
So the goat left the ball of camwood in the house and went out for a little while.
Who acts: goat · What happens: leave, go out · To what, where: ball, house
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 left | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 goat | det |
| 3 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ball | det |
| 6 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 camwood | case |
| 8 | camwood | camwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ball | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 went | compound:prt |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 while | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 while | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 while | amod |
| 18 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the goat | the ball of camwood | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ball=Theme in house=Location | |||
| 2 | go out | past | the goat not said here | while | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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