Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxx.--the Game of Hide-and-seek As Played By the Hawk and the Bush Cow., sentence 22
The hawk flew off the next morning, and very shortly afterwards the bush cow dashed off into the forest to look for him.
Who acts: hawk, bush cow · What happens: fly off, dash off, look · To what, where: forest
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, bush cow), 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 hawk | det |
| 2 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 morning | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 morning | det |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 morning | amod |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dashed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dashed | cc |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 shortly | advmod |
| 11 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 12 afterwards | advmod |
| 12 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 16 dashed | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cow | det |
| 14 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cow | compound |
| 15 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dashed | nsubj |
| 16 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 dashed | compound:prt |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dashed | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 look | mark |
| 22 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 dashed | advcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 look | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 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 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location morning=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dash off | past | the bush cow | the forest | afterwards property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into forest=Destination | |||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | the bush cow not said here | 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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