Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 52
The alligator thought this a good plan, and agreed to what the hare said, so he dug a pit and put the sharp sticks in the bottom.
Who acts: alligator, hare, iguana · What happens: think, agree, say, dig, put · To what, where: this, pit, sharp sticks, bottom · 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 (alligator, hare, iguana), 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 alligator | det |
| 2 | alligator | alligator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 thought | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 plan | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 plan | amod |
| 7 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 agreed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 agreed | cc |
| 10 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 thought | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 what | case |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 agreed | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hare | det |
| 14 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dug | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 dug | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 dug | nsubj |
| 19 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pit | det |
| 21 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dug | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 put | cc |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 dug | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sticks | det |
| 25 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sticks | amod |
| 26 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 put | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 bottom | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bottom | det |
| 29 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the alligator | this | a good plan obj | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Theme plan=Attribute | |||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | participle | the alligator not said here | what obl | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the hare | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | dig | past | iguana | a pit | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pit=Theme | ||||
| 5 | put | infinitive | iguana not said here | the sharp sticks | the bottom | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stick=Theme in bottom=Destination |
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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