Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 56
The alligator then swam home and told his wife, who was mourning her children, of the revenge he had taken upon the hare.
Who acts: alligator, wife, iguana · What happens: swim, tell, mourn, take · To what, where: wife, children · 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, wife, 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 swam | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 swam | advmod |
| 4 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 swam | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 told | cc |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swam | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mourning | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 mourning | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 mourning | aux |
| 13 | mourning | mourn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 wife | acl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 children | nmod:poss |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 mourning | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 taken | punct |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 revenge | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 revenge | det |
| 19 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 taken | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 taken | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 taken | aux |
| 22 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 told | conj |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 hare | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hare | det |
| 25 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 taken | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | the alligator | then | home property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the alligator not said here | iguana's wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | mourn | past · progressive | iguana's wife | wife's children | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | take | past · perfect | iguana | of the revenge; upon the hare | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent of revenge=Initial_Location |
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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