Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 42
They then gave the hare presents of fish and yams, and said good-bye to him.
Who acts: alligators · What happens: give, say · To what, where: hare presents · 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 presents | det |
| 5 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 presents | compound |
| 6 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fish | case |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 presents | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 yams | cc |
| 10 | yams | yam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fish | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | xcomp |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 bye | punct |
| 16 | bye | bye | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 good | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bye | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | alligators = alligator | the hare presents of fish and yams | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | alligators = alligator not said here | good property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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