Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 32
When the Elephantiasis heard this he became more furious than ever, and rolled back again, and then made another attack on the crab.
Who acts: Elephantiasis · What happens: hear, become, roll back, make · To what, where: this, attack
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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Elephantiasis | det |
| 3 | Elephantiasis | elephantiasis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 became | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 became | nsubj |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 furious | advmod |
| 9 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 became | xcomp |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 ever | case |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 furious | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rolled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rolled | cc |
| 14 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 became | conj |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 rolled | advmod |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 rolled | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 made | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 made | advmod |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 became | conj |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 attack | det |
| 22 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 crab | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 crab | det |
| 25 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Elephantiasis | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | become | past | Elephantiasis | furious property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | roll back | past | Elephantiasis not said here | again | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past | Elephantiasis not said here | another attack | then | on the crab | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset attack=Product |
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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