Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, sentence 61

After he had gone a short distance further the hare thought he would try another trick to get rid of the disease, so, seeing some rubber vines growing near with ripe fruit, he said to the Elephantiasis, “I am still very hungry, are you not hungry also?

Who acts: ELEPHANTIASIS, hare, rubber vines · What happens: go, think, try, get, see, grow · To what, where: short distance, trick, rubber vines, Elephantiasis · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (ELEPHANTIASIS, hare, rubber vines), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 gone	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 thought	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 distance	det
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 distance	amod
7	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obj
8	further	further	ADV	_	11 thought	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hare	det
10	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 try	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 try	aux
14	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thought	ccomp
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 trick	det
16	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 try	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 get	mark
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 trick	acl
19	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 get	xcomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 disease	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 disease	det
22	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rid	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	37 said	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seeing	punct
26	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 said	ccomp
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 vines	det
28	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 vines	compound
29	vines	vine	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 seeing	obj
30	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 vines	acl
31	near	near	ADV	_	30 growing	advmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 fruit	case
33	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 fruit	amod
34	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 growing	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seeing	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 said	nsubj
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 try	conj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 Elephantiasis	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 Elephantiasis	det
40	Elephantiasis	elephantiasis	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 said	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 hungry	punct
42	“	"	PUNCT	_	47 hungry	punct
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 hungry	nsubj
44	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 hungry	cop
45	still	still	ADV	_	47 hungry	advmod
46	very	very	ADV	_	47 hungry	advmod
47	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 said	ccomp
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 hungry	punct
49	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 hungry	cop
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 hungry	nsubj
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 hungry	advmod
52	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 try	parataxis
53	also	also	ADV	_	52 hungry	advmod
54	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	ELEPHANTIASIS	a short distance				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	the hare				further property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	try	would	ELEPHANTIASIS	another trick				tree rules
4	get	to-infinitive	ELEPHANTIASIS not said here	another trick not said here			rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	see	gerund		some rubber vines				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vine=Stimulus
6	grow	gerund	some rubber vines not said here				with ripe fruit; near property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	say speech: ask	past	ELEPHANTIASIS		the Elephantiasis			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to elephantiasis=Recipient clause=Topic
8	is in a quote	present	ELEPHANTIASIS			still	hungry property	tree rules
9	not is in a quote	present	the Elephantiasis = elephantiasis				hungry property	tree rules

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 61

The tree

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, sentence 61