Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, sentence 52

The hare agreed to this, and sat down amongst the people and took his share of all the food; but as he was enjoying himself so much he did not notice that the people were sitting in rather a peculiar fashion, so he sat down in the ordinary way with his legs open.

Who acts: hare, Okpa, people · What happens: agree, sit down, take, enjoy, not notice, sit · To what, where: share, Okpa, peculiar fashion, ordinary way, food

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, Okpa, people), 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	3 agreed	nsubj
3	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 agreed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sat	cc
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 agreed	parataxis
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 sat	compound:prt
10	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	12 people	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 people	det
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sat	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 took	cc
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sat	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 share	nmod:poss
16	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 food	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 food	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 food	det
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 share	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 notice	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 notice	cc
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 enjoying	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 enjoying	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 enjoying	aux
26	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 notice	advcl
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 enjoying	obj
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 much	advmod
29	much	much	ADV	_	26 enjoying	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 notice	nsubj
31	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 notice	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 notice	advmod
33	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 agreed	conj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 sitting	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 people	det
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 sitting	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 sitting	aux
38	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 notice	advcl
39	in	in	ADP	_	43 fashion	case
40	rather	rather	ADV	_	43 fashion	advmod
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 fashion	det
42	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 fashion	compound
43	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sitting	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 sat	punct
45	so	so	ADV	_	47 sat	advmod
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 sat	nsubj
47	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 agreed	conj
48	down	down	ADP	_	47 sat	compound:prt
49	in	in	ADP	_	52 way	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 way	det
51	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 way	amod
52	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 sat	obl
53	with	with	ADP	_	55 legs	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 legs	nmod:poss
55	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 sat	obl
56	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 sat	xcomp
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	the hare			to this	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit down	past				amongst the people	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent amongst people=Location
3	take	past		Okpa's share of all food			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme
4	enjoy	past · progressive	Okpa	Okpa			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus
5	not notice	past · do-support	Okpa				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	sit	past · progressive	the people		a peculiar fashion		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fashion=Location
7	sit down	past	Okpa		the ordinary way	with Okpa's legs; open property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location
8	share		Okpa	all food			nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, sentence 52

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, sentence 52