Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxx.--the Game of Hide-and-seek As Played By the Hawk and the Bush Cow., sentence 11
So in the early morning the hawk flew off to where he knew there was a very tall tree covered with creepers.
Who acts: hawk, king · What happens: fly off, know, be, cover · To what, where: tall tree · 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, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 flew | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 morning | det |
| 4 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 morning | amod |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hawk | det |
| 7 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 flew | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 knew | case |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 knew | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knew | nsubj |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flew | conj |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 was | expl |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 knew | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 tall | advmod |
| 18 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tree | amod |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knew | obj |
| 20 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 tree | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 creepers | case |
| 22 | creepers | creeper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 covered | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly off | past | the hawk | morning | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | king | a tall tree | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | past | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cover | participle | a tall tree not said here | with creepers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with creeper=Theme |
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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