Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxx.--the Game of Hide-and-seek As Played By the Hawk and the Bush Cow., sentence 1
In the days when all the animals and birds lived together they were always on friendly terms, even the eagles and hawks did not molest the hens and ducks.
Who acts: animals, friendly terms · What happens: live together, be, not molest · To what, where: friendly terms, hens
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxx.--the Game of Hide-and-seek As Played By the Hawk and the Bush Cow.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animals, friendly terms), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lived | obl |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 lived | advmod |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 animals | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 animals | det |
| 7 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 birds | cc |
| 9 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 animals | conj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 lived | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 terms | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 terms | cop |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 terms | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 terms | case |
| 16 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 terms | amod |
| 17 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 molest | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 eagles | punct |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 eagles | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 eagles | det |
| 21 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 terms | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hawks | cc |
| 23 | hawks | hawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 terms | conj |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 molest | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 molest | advmod |
| 26 | molest | molest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 lived | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 hens | det |
| 28 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 molest | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 ducks | cc |
| 30 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 hens | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live together | past | all animals and birds | day | together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | animals = animal | friendly terms and the eagles and hawks | the eagles conj; hawks conj; always property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not molest | past · do-support | friendly terms and the eagles and hawks | the hens and ducks | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hen=Experiencer |
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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