Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 53

The alligator then threw the hare into the air as high as he could, and he fell into the pit, but was careful not to be caught on the sharp sticks.

Who acts: alligator, iguana · What happens: throw, fall, be, not catch · To what, where: hare, air, pit, sharp sticks

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, 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	4 threw	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 threw	advmod
4	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hare	det
6	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threw	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 air	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 threw	obl
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 high	advmod
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 threw	advcl
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 could	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 could	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 high	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fell	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fell	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fell	nsubj
18	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 threw	conj
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 pit	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pit	det
21	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fell	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 careful	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 careful	cc
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 careful	cop
25	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fell	conj
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 caught	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	29 caught	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 caught	aux:pass
29	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 careful	advcl
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 sticks	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sticks	det
32	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sticks	amod
33	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 caught	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	the alligator	the hare		then	into the air result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer hare=Theme into air=Result
2	fall	past	iguana				into the pit result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into pit=Result
3	is	past	iguana not said here				careful property	tree rules
4	not catch	to-infinitive · passive	iguana not said here		the sharp sticks			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»

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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 53

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Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 53