Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 23

Just as he got near the land, however, he came across a large female alligator, who asked him where he came from and where he was going.

Who acts: fish, large female alligator · What happens: get, come, ask, go · To what, where: land, fish

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 (fish, large female alligator), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 got	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 land	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 land	det
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
9	however	however	ADV	_	12 came	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 however	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
13	across	across	ADP	_	17 alligator	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 alligator	det
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 alligator	amod
16	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 alligator	amod
17	alligator	alligator	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 asked	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 asked	nsubj
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 alligator	acl:relcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 asked	iobj
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 came	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 came	nsubj
24	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 asked	advcl
25	from	from	ADP	_	24 came	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 going	cc
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 going	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 going	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 going	aux
30	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 came	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	fish		the land		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	come	past	fish			across a large female alligator; however property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across alligator=Initial_Location
3	ask speech: ask	past	a large female alligator	fish			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	come	past	fish				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	go	past · progressive	fish				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 23

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 23