Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 55
So the alligator said, “Now I have got you, you cunning hare!” and walked away to the river.
Who acts: alligator · What happens: say, get, walk away · To what, where: you · 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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 alligator | det |
| 3 | alligator | alligator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 7 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 got | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | aux |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 got | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 got | obj |
| 14 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hare | amod |
| 15 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 walked | cc |
| 19 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 walked | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 river | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 river | det |
| 23 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 walked | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the alligator | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present · perfect | the alligator = alligator | you | now | cunning hare obl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary you=Theme | ||
| 3 | walk away | past | the alligator not said here | to the river; away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: 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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