Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 2

The parrot used to fly off very early every morning with his family to an island in the river where there were plenty of palm-trees, and return in the evening carrying his bag of palm nuts with him.

What happens: use, fly off, return, carry · To what, where: parrot, bag

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: 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 parrot	det
2	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	nsubj:pass
3	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fly	mark
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 used	advcl
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 fly	compound:prt
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 early	advmod
8	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 fly	advmod
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 morning	det
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fly	obl:unmarked
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 family	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 family	nmod:poss
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fly	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 island	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 island	det
16	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fly	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 river	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 river	det
19	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 island	nmod
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 were	advmod
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 were	expl
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 river	acl:relcl
23	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 were	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 trees	case
25	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trees	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 palm	punct
27	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 plenty	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 return	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 return	cc
30	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 used	advcl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 evening	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 evening	det
33	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 return	obl
34	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 return	advcl
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 bag	nmod:poss
36	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 carrying	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 nuts	case
38	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 nuts	compound
39	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 bag	nmod
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 carrying	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle · passive	the parrot			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	fly off	to-infinitive		morning	with fish's family; to a island in the river result; early property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to island=Result
3	return	infinitive		evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	carry	gerund	plenty's bag of palm nuts		with plenty	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 2

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 2