Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 7
The hare then went home, but made up his mind to go with the parrot, so that very night he hid himself in the parrot’s bag.
Who acts: hare, plenty · What happens: go, make up, hide, mind · To what, where: mind, plenty, bag
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 (hare, plenty), 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 hare | det |
| 2 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | parataxis |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 made | compound:prt |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mind | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 made | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 parrot | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 parrot | det |
| 16 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hid | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 hid | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | ADP | _ | 21 night | case |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 night | advmod |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hid | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hid | nsubj |
| 23 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 hid | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 bag | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 parrot | det |
| 27 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bag | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 parrot | case |
| 29 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hid | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the hare | then | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | make up | participle | plenty's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | with the parrot | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with parrot=Beneficiary | |||||
| 4 | hide | past | plenty | plenty | the parrot's bag | night | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in bag=Location | ||
| 5 | mind | plenty | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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