Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 5
The hare asked the parrot where he got all the palm nuts from, and said he would like to go with him.
Who acts: hare, plenty · What happens: ask, get, say, like, go · To what, where: parrot, palm nuts · 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 (hare, plenty), 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 hare | det |
| 2 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 parrot | det |
| 5 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obj |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 got | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 parrot | acl:relcl |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 nuts | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nuts | det |
| 11 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nuts | compound |
| 12 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 got | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 got | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 like | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 like | aux |
| 19 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 like | xcomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 go | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the hare | the parrot | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parrot=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | get | past | plenty | all palm nuts | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nut=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | like | would | plenty | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | plenty not said here | with plenty | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary |
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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