Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 37
The same thing happened every night until the hare had eaten all the young alligators except the one he had painted and showed to the parents each morning.
Who acts: same thing, thing · What happens: happen, eat, paint, show · To what, where: hare, one, parents
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 (same thing, thing), 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 | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 eaten | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hare | det |
| 9 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 eaten | aux |
| 11 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 happened | advcl |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 alligators | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 alligators | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 alligators | amod |
| 15 | alligators | alligator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 eaten | obj |
| 16 | except | except | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eaten | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 painted | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 painted | aux |
| 21 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 one | acl:relcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 showed | cc |
| 23 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 eaten | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 parents | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 parents | det |
| 26 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 showed | obl |
| 27 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 morning | det |
| 28 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 showed | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the same thing | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat | past · perfect · passive | the hare | except the one; all young alligators obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | paint | past · perfect | thing | the one not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Destination | ||||
| 4 | show | past | the parents | morning | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to parent=Recipient |
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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