Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxix.--why a Python Never Swallows a Tortoise., sentence 3
On these occasions the elephant always entertained the animals, and when the work was finished the elephant gave them food.
Who acts: elephant · What happens: entertain, finish, give · To what, where: animals, occasions, work, food
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 (elephant), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 occasions | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 occasions | det |
| 3 | occasions | occasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 entertained | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 elephant | det |
| 5 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 entertained | nsubj |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 entertained | advmod |
| 7 | entertained | entertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 animals | det |
| 9 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 entertained | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 finished | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 finished | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 finished | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 work | det |
| 14 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 finished | aux:pass |
| 16 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 entertained | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 elephant | det |
| 18 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 finished | ccomp |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | iobj |
| 21 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 entertained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entertain | past | the elephant | the animals | this occasions | always property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus animal=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | finish | past · passive | the work | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | past | the elephant | food | animals = animal | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient food=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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