Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 21
The mother crab agreed, but told the hare that she had young ones in one branch of the hole, and that he might go in and sit down in another part until the fight was over.
Who acts: mother crab, crab, hare, fight · What happens: agree, tell, have, go in, sit down, be · To what, where: hare, young ones, one branch, part · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother crab, crab, hare, fight), 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 | 3 crab | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crab | compound |
| 3 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 told | cc |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hare | det |
| 9 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | iobj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | ccomp |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ones | amod |
| 14 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 branch | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 branch | nummod |
| 17 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 hole | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hole | det |
| 20 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 branch | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 go | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 go | cc |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 go | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 go | nsubj |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 go | aux |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 told | ccomp |
| 27 | in | in | ADV | _ | 26 go | advmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 sit | cc |
| 29 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 go | conj |
| 30 | down | down | ADP | _ | 29 sit | compound:prt |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 part | case |
| 32 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 part | det |
| 33 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sit | obl |
| 34 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 38 over | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 fight | det |
| 36 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 over | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 over | cop |
| 38 | over | over | ADV | _ | 29 sit | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | participle | the mother crab | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the mother crab not said here | the hare | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent hare=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | past | crab | young ones | one branch of the hole | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | |||
| 4 | go in | might | hare | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sit down | infinitive | hare not said here | another part | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in part=Location | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the fight | over 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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