Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxix.--why a Python Never Swallows a Tortoise., sentence 26
So in the morning the tortoise went off into the bush, leaving the bush buck to be eaten by the python.
Who acts: tortoise, python · What happens: go off, leave, eat · To what, where: bush, bush buck
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, python), 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 | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tortoise | det |
| 6 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 went | compound:prt |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 bush | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bush | det |
| 11 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leaving | punct |
| 13 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 went | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 buck | det |
| 15 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 buck | compound |
| 16 | buck | buck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaving | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 eaten | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 eaten | aux:pass |
| 19 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 buck | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 python | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 python | det |
| 22 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eaten | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off | past | the tortoise | the bush | morning | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | leave | gerund | the tortoise not said here | the bush buck | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buck=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive · passive | the python | the bush buck not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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