Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxix.--why a Python Never Swallows a Tortoise., sentence 15

The tortoise was the last to arrive, and when he saw the palm nuts he shouted out, “Hallo, python, I am hungry, may I have some of your fruit?”

Who acts: tortoise, Hallo · What happens: be, arrive, see, shout out, have · To what, where: palm nuts, some · 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 (tortoise, Hallo), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tortoise	det
2	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 last	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 last	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 last	det
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 arrive	mark
7	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 last	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shouted	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 shouted	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 saw	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 shouted	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 nuts	det
14	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nuts	compound
15	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 saw	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 shouted	nsubj
17	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 last	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 shouted	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Hallo	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Hallo	punct
21	Hallo	Hallo	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 have	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 python	punct
23	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Hallo	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hungry	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 hungry	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 hungry	cop
27	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Hallo	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hungry	punct
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 shouted	ccomp
32	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 have	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 fruit	case
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 fruit	nmod:poss
35	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 some	nmod
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 last	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the tortoise		last property	tree rules
2	arrive	to-infinitive	the tortoise not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	tortoise	the palm nuts		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nut=Stimulus
4	shout out speech: express	past	tortoise			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is in a quote	present	tortoise		hungry property	tree rules
6	have in a quote	may	Hallo	some of your fruit	I nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient

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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The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxix.--why a Python Never Swallows a Tortoise., sentence 15