Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 11

When the parrot began to eat some of the nuts, the hare eat some also, and when the parrot dropped the kernel the hare dropped his at the same time through the hole in the bag.

Who acts: parrot, hare · What happens: begin, eat, drop · To what, where: some, kernel, plenty, hole

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parrot, hare), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 parrot	det
3	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 eat	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 nuts	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nuts	det
10	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 some	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eat	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hare	det
13	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eat	nsubj
14	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 eat	obj
16	also	also	ADV	_	14 eat	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dropped	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dropped	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 dropped	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 parrot	det
21	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dropped	nsubj
22	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 eat	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 kernel	det
24	kernel	kernel	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dropped	obj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hare	det
26	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dropped	nsubj
27	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dropped	parataxis
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 dropped	obj
29	at	at	ADP	_	32 time	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 time	det
31	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 time	amod
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dropped	obl
33	through	through	ADP	_	35 hole	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hole	det
35	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dropped	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 bag	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 bag	det
38	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hole	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	begin	past	the parrot				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	to-infinitive	the parrot not said here	some of the nuts			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
3	eat	present	the hare	some			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
4	drop	past	the parrot	the kernel			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kernel=Theme
5	drop	past	the hare	plenty	the hole in the bag	time	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent his=Theme through hole=Destination

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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 11