Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 41
The alligators agreed to this, and told the iguana to bring his canoe and paddle the hare across the river.
Who acts: alligators · What happens: agree, tell, bring, paddle · To what, where: iguana, canoe, hare, river · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (alligators), 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 alligators | det |
| 2 | alligators | alligator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 agreed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 told | cc |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 iguana | det |
| 10 | iguana | iguana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | iobj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 bring | mark |
| 12 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 told | xcomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 canoe | nmod:poss |
| 14 | canoe | canoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bring | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 paddle | cc |
| 16 | paddle | paddle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 bring | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hare | det |
| 18 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 paddle | obj |
| 19 | across | across | ADP | _ | 21 river | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 river | det |
| 21 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 paddle | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the alligators | to this | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the alligators not said here | the iguana | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent iguana=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | the alligators not said here | painting's canoe | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme | ||||
| 4 | paddle | infinitive | the alligators not said here | the hare | the river | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hare=Theme across river=Trajectory |
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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