Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxix.--why a Python Never Swallows a Tortoise., sentence 4

Now, although the python never did any work on the farm, he always attended the feasts and, being very greedy, eat more than his share of the food.

Who acts: python, work · What happens: not do, attend, be, eat, share · To what, where: work, farm, feasts, more, 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 (python, work), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 attended	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	although	although	SCONJ	_	7 did	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 python	det
5	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 did	advmod
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 attended	advcl
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 work	det
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 farm	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 farm	det
12	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 attended	nsubj
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 attended	advmod
16	attended	attend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 feasts	det
18	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 attended	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 greedy	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 greedy	punct
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 greedy	cop
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 greedy	advmod
23	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 attended	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 eat	punct
25	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	16 attended	conj
26	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 eat	obj
27	than	than	ADP	_	29 share	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 share	nmod:poss
29	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 more	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 food	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 food	det
32	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 share	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 attended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	the python	any work	the farm			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
2	attend	past	work	the feasts		now	always property	vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme feast=Goal
3	is	gerund	work not said here				greedy property	tree rules
4	eat	present	work not said here	more than work's share of the food				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
5	share		work	the food				nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxix.--why a Python Never Swallows a Tortoise., sentence 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxix.--why a Python Never Swallows a Tortoise., sentence 4