Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxx.--the Game of Hide-and-seek As Played By the Hawk and the Bush Cow., sentence 2
At that time the eagle was king over all the birds, and a very small grey-coloured antelope was made king of the animals.
Who acts: eagle · What happens: be, make · To what, where: king, small coloured antelope
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 (eagle), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eagle | det |
| 5 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 king | cop |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 birds | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 birds | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 birds | det |
| 11 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 king | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 made | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 made | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 antelope | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 small | advmod |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 antelope | amod |
| 17 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 coloured | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 grey | punct |
| 19 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 antelope | amod |
| 20 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 made | aux:pass |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 king | parataxis |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 animals | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 animals | det |
| 26 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 king | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the eagle | king | time | over all birds | tree rules | ||
| 2 | make | past · passive | a small coloured antelope | king of the animals obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary king=Product |
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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