Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 4, sentence 35
When he had thus arranged everything to his satisfaction, the young frog went to the bush buck and challenged him to race for his daughter.
Who acts: FROG, young frog · What happens: arrange, go, challenge, race, satisfy · To what, where: everything, bush buck, FROG
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (FROG, young frog), 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 arranged | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 arranged | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arranged | aux |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 arranged | advmod |
| 5 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 arranged | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 satisfaction | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 satisfaction | nmod:poss |
| 9 | satisfaction | satisfaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 everything | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 frog | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 frog | amod |
| 13 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arranged | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 buck | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 buck | det |
| 17 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 buck | compound |
| 18 | buck | buck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 challenged | cc |
| 20 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 challenged | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 race | mark |
| 23 | race | race | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 challenged | xcomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 daughter | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 26 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 race | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arranged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrange | past · perfect | FROG | everything | to FROG's satisfaction; thus property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Product | |||
| 2 | go | past | the young frog | the bush buck | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to buck=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | challenge | past | the young frog not said here | FROG | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | race | to-infinitive | the young frog not said here | for FROG's daughter | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | satisfy | FROG | nom satisfaction «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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