Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 60
Then the parrot was frightened, and moved his house to the top of a high tree on the island.
What happens: frighten, move · To what, where: parrot, house, top
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 frightened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 parrot | det |
| 3 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | aux:pass |
| 5 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 moved | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 moved | cc |
| 8 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moved | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 top | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 top | det |
| 13 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moved | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 16 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tree | amod |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 top | nmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 island | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 island | det |
| 20 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tree | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | the parrot | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | move | past | iguana's house | the top of a high tree on the island | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent house=Theme to top=Trajectory |
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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