Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxx.--the Game of Hide-and-seek As Played By the Hawk and the Bush Cow., sentence 15
The antelope was not satisfied, so they arranged to have another match; but the same thing happened and the antelope had to pay again.
Who acts: antelope, hawks, same thing · What happens: not be, arrange, have, happen, pay · To what, where: match
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 (antelope, hawks, same thing), 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 antelope | det |
| 2 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 satisfied | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 satisfied | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 satisfied | advmod |
| 5 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 arranged | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 arranged | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 arranged | nsubj |
| 9 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 satisfied | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 have | mark |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 arranged | xcomp |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 match | det |
| 13 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 happened | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 happened | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thing | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thing | amod |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 happened | nsubj |
| 19 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 satisfied | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 had | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 antelope | det |
| 22 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 happened | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 pay | mark |
| 25 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 had | xcomp |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 pay | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the antelope | satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | arrange | past | hawks = hawk | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | hawks = hawk not said here | another match | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Patient | ||||
| 4 | happen | past | the same thing | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have | past | the antelope | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | pay | to-infinitive | the antelope not said here | again | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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