Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 4, sentence 39
But the frog returned to his hole, and the bush buck raced off alone as fast as he could go.
Who acts: frog, bush buck · What happens: return, race off, go
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, bush buck), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 returned | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 frog | det |
| 3 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 hole | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hole | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 raced | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 raced | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 buck | det |
| 11 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 buck | compound |
| 12 | buck | buck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 raced | nsubj |
| 13 | raced | race | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 raced | compound:prt |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 13 raced | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 fast | advmod |
| 17 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 raced | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 go | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | aux |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 fast | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the frog | to FROG's hole result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hole=Result | ||||
| 2 | race off | past | the bush buck | alone, fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | could | FROG | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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