Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong., sentence 6
The elephant said he did not care much for either fish or meat, and had none to give, so he gave the goat some beans instead.
Who acts: elephant · What happens: say, not care, have, give · To what, where: none, beans, goat · 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 (elephant), 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 elephant | det |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 care | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 care | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 care | advmod |
| 7 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 care | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 fish | case |
| 10 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 fish | det |
| 11 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 care | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 meat | cc |
| 13 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fish | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 17 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 16 had | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 give | mark |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 none | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 gave | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 goat | det |
| 25 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obj |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 beans | det |
| 27 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gave | obj |
| 28 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 23 gave | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the elephant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not care | past · do-support | elephant | for either fish or meat | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for fish=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the elephant not said here | none | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | ||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | the elephant not said here | none not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | give | past | elephant | some beans | the goat | instead property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent goat=Recipient bean=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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