Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxix.--why a Python Never Swallows a Tortoise., sentence 11

They also collected other nuts and fruit and made them into heaps by the wayside where they knew all the people would pass on their way home from working on the elephant’s farm.

Who acts: people · What happens: collect, make, know, pass on, work · To what, where: other nuts, people, heaps, way · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 collected	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 collected	advmod
3	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 nuts	amod
5	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 collected	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fruit	cc
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nuts	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 made	cc
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 collected	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 heaps	case
12	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 made	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 wayside	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wayside	det
15	wayside	wayside	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obl
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 knew	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 knew	nsubj
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wayside	acl:relcl
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 people	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 people	det
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pass	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 pass	aux
23	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 knew	ccomp
24	on	on	ADP	_	23 pass	compound:prt
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 way	nmod:poss
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pass	obj
27	home	home	ADV	_	23 pass	advmod
28	from	from	SCONJ	_	29 working	mark
29	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 pass	advcl
30	on	on	ADP	_	34 farm	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 elephant	det
32	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 farm	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 elephant	case
34	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 working	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 collected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	collect	past	people	other nuts and fruit			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme
2	make	past	people not said here	people	heaps	by the wayside	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into heap=Product
3	know	past	people				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	pass on	would	all people	people's way		home property	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
5	work	gerund	all people not said here			on the elephant's farm	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on farm=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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxix.--why a Python Never Swallows a Tortoise., sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxix.--why a Python Never Swallows a Tortoise., sentence 11