Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxx.--the Game of Hide-and-seek As Played By the Hawk and the Bush Cow., sentence 10
The first day the hawk was told to hide in the forest and the bush cow had to find him.
Who acts: hawk, bush cow · What happens: tell, hide, have, find · To what, where: hawk, forest, king · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hawk, bush cow), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hawk | det |
| 5 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux:pass |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 hide | mark |
| 9 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 told | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hide | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cow | det |
| 15 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cow | compound |
| 16 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hide | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 find | mark |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 had | xcomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 find | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | the hawk | day | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hide not said to happen | to-infinitive | the hawk not said here | the forest | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the bush cow | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | the bush cow not said here | king | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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