Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 26
This made the Elephantiasis very angry, and he threatened to jump on the crab.
Who acts: This, Elephantiasis · What happens: make, threaten, jump · To what, where: Elephantiasis
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 (This, Elephantiasis), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Elephantiasis | det |
| 4 | Elephantiasis | Elephantiasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 angry | advmod |
| 6 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 made | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 threatened | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 threatened | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 threatened | nsubj |
| 10 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 jump | mark |
| 12 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 threatened | xcomp |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 crab | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 crab | det |
| 15 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 jump | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | This | the Elephantiasis | angry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset elephantiasis=Product | |||
| 2 | threaten | past | Elephantiasis | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | jump not said to happen | to-infinitive | Elephantiasis not said here | on the crab | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on crab=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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