Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong., sentence 38
In the morning the goat went on to the next town, taking the sleeping-mat with him.
Who acts: goat · What happens: go on, take · To what, where: sleeping mat
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 goat | det |
| 5 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 town | amod |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 taking | punct |
| 13 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 went | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mat | det |
| 15 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mat | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 sleeping | punct |
| 17 | mat | mat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taking | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 taking | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | the goat | morning | to the next town | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | gerund | the goat not said here | the sleeping mat | with farmer | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mat=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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