Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 43

When the mother crab returned vowing vengeance on the hare, she found he had gone and had taken her pot with the meat in it; and although she shouted to him several times to come back she got no answer.

Who acts: mother crab, crab, hare · What happens: return, vow, find, go, take, shout · To what, where: vengeance, pot, hare, answer · 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), 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	5 returned	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	5 returned	nsubj
5	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 found	advcl
6	vowing	vow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 returned	xcomp
7	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vowing	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 hare	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hare	det
10	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vowing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 returned	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 gone	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	aux
16	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 found	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 taken	cc
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 taken	aux
19	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 gone	conj
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 pot	nmod:poss
21	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 taken	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 meat	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 meat	det
24	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 taken	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 meat	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 shouted	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 shouted	cc
29	although	although	SCONJ	_	31 shouted	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 shouted	nsubj
31	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 found	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 shouted	obl
34	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 times	amod
35	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 shouted	obl:unmarked
36	to	to	PART	_	37 come	mark
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 shouted	advcl
38	back	back	ADV	_	37 come	advmod
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 got	nsubj
40	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 come	advcl
41	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	42 answer	det
42	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 got	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	the mother crab					tree rules
2	vow	gerund	the mother crab not said here	vengeance			on the hare	tree rules
3	find	past	crab					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	go	past · perfect	hare					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take	past · perfect	hare not said here	crab's pot			with the meat in pot	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme
6	shout speech: express	past	crab		hare	time		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
7	come back	to-infinitive	crab not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	get	past	crab	no answer				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus

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 2, sentence 43

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 43