Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxx.--the Game of Hide-and-seek As Played By the Hawk and the Bush Cow., sentence 39
The following morning, therefore, the cocks and hens set off with their children, carrying a piece of bark with them and told the other people they were going to get some fire.
Who acts: cocks, other people · What happens: follow, set off, carry, tell, go, get · To what, where: piece, fire · 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 (cocks, other people), 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 | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 11 set | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 therefore | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cocks | det |
| 8 | cocks | cock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 set | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hens | cc |
| 10 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cocks | conj |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 children | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 children | nmod:poss |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 set | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 carrying | punct |
| 17 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 set | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 piece | det |
| 19 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carrying | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 bark | case |
| 21 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 piece | nmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 carrying | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 told | cc |
| 25 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 set | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 people | det |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 people | amod |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 going | nsubj |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 going | nsubj |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 going | aux |
| 31 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 told | ccomp |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 get | mark |
| 33 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 going | xcomp |
| 34 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 fire | det |
| 35 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 get | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | set off | past | the cocks and hens | morning | with cocks's children; therefore property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | carry | gerund | the cocks and hens not said here | a piece of bark | with cocks = cock | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | the cocks and hens not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go | past · progressive | the other people | cocks = cock nsubj | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | get | to-infinitive | the other people not said here | some fire | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus |
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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