Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxix.--why a Python Never Swallows a Tortoise., sentence 10
So he went off into the bush, taking his wife with him, and together they gathered large numbers of soft palm nuts.
Who acts: python, people · What happens: go off, take, gather · To what, where: bush, wife, large numbers
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxix.--why a Python Never Swallows a Tortoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (python, people), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 bush | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bush | det |
| 7 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 taking | punct |
| 9 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taking | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 taking | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gathered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gathered | cc |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 gathered | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gathered | nsubj |
| 18 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 numbers | amod |
| 20 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gathered | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 nuts | case |
| 22 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 nuts | amod |
| 23 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 nuts | compound |
| 24 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 numbers | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | python | the bush | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | python not said here | python's wife | with python | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | |||
| 3 | gather | past | people | large numbers of soft palm nuts | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=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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