Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 35
Then the mother crab called for her knife, which the hare gave her out of the hole.
Who acts: mother crab · What happens: call, give · To what, where: mother crab, water, hole · 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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 gave | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crab | det |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crab | compound |
| 4 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 crab | acl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 knife | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 knife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 gave | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hare | det |
| 12 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 hole | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 hole | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hole | det |
| 18 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the mother crab not said here | for crab's knife | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for knife=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the mother crab | water | the hole | then | which obj; the hare nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient which=Theme |
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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