Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxx.--the Game of Hide-and-seek As Played By the Hawk and the Bush Cow., sentence 3
This antelope was appointed king because he was so cunning, and always knew when danger was near, having a very fine sense of smell and keen eyesight.
Who acts: antelope, danger · What happens: appoint, be, know, have, sense · To what, where: antelope, fine sense, smell
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, danger), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 antelope | det |
| 2 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 appointed | aux:pass |
| 4 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appointed | obj |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 cunning | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cunning | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cunning | cop |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 cunning | advmod |
| 10 | cunning | cunning | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 appointed | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 knew | cc |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 knew | advmod |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 appointed | parataxis |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 near | advmod |
| 16 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 near | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 near | cop |
| 18 | near | near | ADV | _ | 14 knew | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 having | punct |
| 20 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 knew | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 sense | det |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 fine | advmod |
| 23 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sense | amod |
| 24 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 having | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 smell | case |
| 26 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sense | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 eyesight | cc |
| 28 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 eyesight | amod |
| 29 | eyesight | eyesight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 smell | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past · passive | this antelope | king obj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme king=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | past | antelope | cunning property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | past | always property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | danger | near property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | gerund | a fine sense of smell and keen eyesight | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient | |||||
| 6 | sense | smell and keen eyesight | nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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