Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxx.--the Game of Hide-and-seek As Played By the Hawk and the Bush Cow., sentence 16
On the third day the antelope said to the eagle, “It seems to be very easy to hide; let the bush cow go and hide and the hawk look for him.”
Who acts: antelope, It, bush cow, hawk · What happens: say, seem, be, hide, let, go · To what, where: eagle, bush cow · 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 (antelope, It, bush cow, hawk), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 antelope | det |
| 6 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 eagle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eagle | det |
| 10 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seems | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 seems | punct |
| 13 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seems | nsubj |
| 14 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 easy | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 easy | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 easy | advmod |
| 18 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 seems | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 hide | mark |
| 20 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 easy | xcomp |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 let | punct |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seems | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cow | det |
| 24 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cow | compound |
| 25 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 let | obj |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 let | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hide | cc |
| 28 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 go | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 look | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 hawk | det |
| 31 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 look | nsubj |
| 32 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 let | conj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 look | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 seems | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the antelope | the eagle | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to eagle=Recipient | |||
| 2 | seem in a quote | present | It | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hide in a quote | to-infinitive | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | let in a quote | infinitive | the bush cow | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | go in a quote | infinitive | the bush cow not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | hide in a quote | infinitive | the bush cow not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | look in a quote | infinitive | the hawk | for antelope | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=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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