Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 34
That evening the hare killed one of the young alligators and eat it.
Who acts: hare · What happens: kill, eat · To what, where: one, ground
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 (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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 evening | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 killed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hare | det |
| 4 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 killed | nsubj |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 killed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 alligators | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 alligators | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 alligators | amod |
| 10 | alligators | alligator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 eat | cc |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 killed | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 eat | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | the hare | one of the young alligators | evening | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat | present | the hare not said here | ground | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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