Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxx.--the Game of Hide-and-seek As Played By the Hawk and the Bush Cow., sentence 21
When the eagle had gone, the antelope told the bush cow that he was very angry indeed with him, and that if he failed to find the hawk again he would make him repay all the money he had lost to the eagle.
Who acts: eagle, antelope, king · What happens: go, tell, be, fail, not find, make · To what, where: bush cow, hawk, king, money · 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 (eagle, antelope, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 gone | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eagle | det |
| 3 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 told | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 antelope | det |
| 8 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | nsubj |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cow | det |
| 11 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cow | compound |
| 12 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | obj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 angry | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 angry | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 angry | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 angry | advmod |
| 17 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 told | ccomp |
| 18 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 17 angry | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 angry | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 make | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 make | cc |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 failed | mark |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 failed | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 failed | nsubj |
| 26 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 make | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 find | mark |
| 28 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 failed | xcomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 hawk | det |
| 30 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 find | obj |
| 31 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 find | advmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 make | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 make | aux |
| 34 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 told | conj |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 make | obj |
| 36 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 make | xcomp |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 money | det:predet |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 money | det |
| 39 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 repay | obj |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 lost | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 lost | aux |
| 42 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 money | acl:relcl |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 eagle | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 eagle | det |
| 45 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 lost | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | the eagle | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the antelope | the bush cow | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cow=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | antelope | with king; angry, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fail a condition, not said to happen | past | antelope | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | not find | to-infinitive | antelope not said here | the hawk | again | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hawk=Topic | |||
| 6 | make | would | antelope | king | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | repay | infinitive | king not said here | all money | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | lose | past · perfect | antelope | all money not said here | to the eagle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality |
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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