Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong., sentence 7
The goat was satisfied at receiving this present from the elephant, and took the beans home to his house and left them in a calabash on the floor.
Who acts: goat · What happens: be, receive, take, leave · To what, where: present, beans, house, calabash
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 goat | det |
| 2 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 satisfied | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 satisfied | cop |
| 4 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 6 receiving | mark |
| 6 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 satisfied | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 present | det |
| 8 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 receiving | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 elephant | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 elephant | det |
| 11 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 present | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 satisfied | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 beans | det |
| 16 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 took | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 house | nmod:poss |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 left | cc |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 left | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 calabash | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 calabash | det |
| 26 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 floor | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 floor | det |
| 29 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 left | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the goat | satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | gerund | the goat not said here | this present | from the elephant | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent present=Theme from elephant=Source | |||
| 3 | take | past | the beans | elephant's house | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bean=Theme to house=Destination | |||
| 4 | leave | past | beans = bean | a calabash | on the floor | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in calabash=Location |
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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