Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxix.--why a Python Never Swallows a Tortoise., sentence 5

This annoyed the tortoise so much that he stood up at the feast and abused the python before all the people, saying that he did not work, and then came and eat a large quantity of the food which had been provided by the king for the people who made his farm and planted his yams.

Who acts: This, annoyed tortoise, python, king, people · What happens: tortoise, stand up, abuse, say, not work, come · To what, where: feast, python, large quantity, food, farm, yams · 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 (This, annoyed tortoise, python, king), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 tortoise	nsubj
2	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tortoise	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tortoise	det
4	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	4 tortoise	advmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 stood	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stood	nsubj
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 stood	compound:prt
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 feast	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 feast	det
13	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 abused	cc
15	abused	abuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stood	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 python	det
17	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 abused	obj
18	before	before	ADP	_	21 people	case
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	15 abused	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saying	punct
23	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 abused	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 work	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 work	nsubj
26	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 work	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 work	advmod
28	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 saying	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 came	cc
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 came	advmod
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stood	parataxis
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 eat	cc
34	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 came	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 quantity	det
36	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 quantity	amod
37	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 eat	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 food	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 food	det
40	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 quantity	nmod
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 provided	nsubj:pass
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 provided	aux
43	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	44 provided	aux:pass
44	provided	provide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 food	acl:relcl
45	by	by	ADP	_	47 king	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 king	det
47	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 provided	obl
48	for	for	ADP	_	50 people	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 people	det
50	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 provided	obl
51	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 made	nsubj
52	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 people	acl:relcl
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 farm	nmod:poss
54	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 made	obj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 planted	cc
56	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 made	conj
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 yams	nmod:poss
58	yams	yam	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 planted	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tortoise		This					tree rules
2	stand up	past	the annoyed tortoise		the feast		tortoise nsubj	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at feast=Location
3	abuse	past	the annoyed tortoise not said here	the python		before all people		vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent python=Theme
4	say speech: assert	gerund	the annoyed tortoise not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not work	past · do-support	python					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	come	past				then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	eat	present		a large quantity of the food				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Patient
8	provide	past · perfect · passive	the king	the food			for the people	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition subject=Theme for people=Beneficiary
9	make	past	the people	python's farm				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Product
10	plant	past	the people not said here	python's yams				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yam=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 5

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxix.--why a Python Never Swallows a Tortoise., sentence 5