Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 58

He then made enquiries from some other animals about the hare, and they told him that he was alive and they had seen him running home.

Who acts: iguana, enquiries · What happens: make, tell, be, see, run · To what, where: enquiries, iguana · 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 (iguana, enquiries), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 made	advmod
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	enquiries	enquiry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 animals	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 animals	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 animals	amod
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 enquiries	nmod
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 hare	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hare	det
11	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 animals	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 alive	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 alive	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 alive	cop
20	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 told	ccomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 seen	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seen	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 seen	aux
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 alive	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seen	obj
26	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 seen	advcl
27	home	home	ADV	_	26 running	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	iguana	enquiries		then	from some other animals about the hare	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent enquiry=Product from animal=Material
2	tell speech: assert	past	enquiries = enquiry		iguana			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is	past	iguana				alive property	tree rules
4	see	past · perfect	enquiries = enquiry	iguana				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	run	gerund	enquiries = enquiry not said here				home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 58

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 58