Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxix.--why a Python Never Swallows a Tortoise., sentence 6
The python was therefore compelled to leave the food and go home as he was unable to work, but he made a vow to revenge himself upon all the people.
Who acts: python · What happens: compel, leave, go, be, work, make · To what, where: python, food, vow
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), 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 python | det |
| 2 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 compelled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 compelled | aux:pass |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 5 compelled | advmod |
| 5 | compelled | compel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 leave | mark |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 compelled | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 food | det |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leave | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 go | cc |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 leave | conj |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 unable | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 unable | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 unable | cop |
| 16 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 go | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 work | mark |
| 18 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 unable | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 made | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 made | nsubj |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 compelled | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 vow | det |
| 24 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 revenge | mark |
| 26 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 vow | acl |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 made | obl |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 people | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 people | det:predet |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 people | det |
| 31 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 made | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 compelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compel | past · passive | the python | therefore property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | the food | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | python | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | work | to-infinitive | python not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | make | past | python | a vow revenge | upon all people; python obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Product |
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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