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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxx.--the Game of Hide-and-seek As Played By the Hawk and the Bush Cow., sentence 40

When they got to the men’s houses they looked about and found that there was so much to eat and they were so comfortable that they at once decided to stay, and have lived with the men ever since, while their cousins the bush fowls live in the bush.

Who acts: cocks, cousins · What happens: get, look, find, be, eat, decide · To what, where: bush

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, cousins), 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

advmodnsubjadvclcasedetnmod:posscaseoblnsubjadvmodccconjmarkexplcopadvmodccompmarkaclccnsubjcopadvmodconjmarknsubjcaseobladvclmarkxcomppunctccauxparataxiscasedetobladvmodadvmodpunctmarknmod:possnsubjdetcompoundconjconjcasedetoblpunctrootWhenADVtheyPRONgotVERBtoADPtheDETmenNOUN’sPARThousesNOUNtheyPRONlookedVERBaboutADVandCCONJfoundVERBthatSCONJtherePRONwasAUXsoADVmuchADJtoPARTeatVERBandCCONJtheyPRONwereAUXsoADVcomfortableADJthatSCONJtheyPRONatADPonceADVdecidedVERBtoPARTstayVERB,PUNCTandCCONJhaveAUXlivedVERBwithADPtheDETmenNOUNeverADVsinceADV,PUNCTwhileSCONJtheirPRONcousinsNOUNtheDETbushNOUNfowlsNOUNliveVERBinADPtheDETbushNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 gotadvmod
2theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs3 gotnsubj
3gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 lookedadvcl
4totoADP_8 housescase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 mendet
6menmanNOUNNumber=Plur8 housesnmod:poss
7’s'sPART_6 mencase
8houseshouseNOUNNumber=Plur3 gotobl
9theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs10 lookednsubj
10lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11aboutaboutADV_10 lookedadvmod
12andandCCONJ_13 foundcc
13foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 lookedconj
14thatthatSCONJ_18 muchmark
15theretherePRONPronType=Dem16 wasexpl
16wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 muchcop
17sosoADV_18 muchadvmod
18muchmuchADJDegree=Pos13 foundccomp
19totoPART_20 eatmark
20eateatVERBVerbForm=Inf18 muchacl
21andandCCONJ_25 comfortablecc
22theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs25 comfortablensubj
23werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 comfortablecop
24sosoADV_25 comfortableadvmod
25comfortablecomfortableADJDegree=Pos18 muchconj
26thatthatSCONJ_30 decidedmark
27theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs30 decidednsubj
28atatADP_29 oncecase
29onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult30 decidedobl
30decideddecideVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 comfortableadvcl
31totoPART_32 staymark
32staystayVERBVerbForm=Inf30 decidedxcomp
33,,PUNCT_36 livedpunct
34andandCCONJ_36 livedcc
35havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin36 livedaux
36livedliveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part10 lookedparataxis
37withwithADP_39 mencase
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 mendet
39menmanNOUNNumber=Plur36 livedobl
40evereverADVPronType=Ind41 sinceadvmod
41sincesinceADV_36 livedadvmod
42,,PUNCT_49 livepunct
43whilewhileSCONJ_49 livemark
44theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs45 cousinsnmod:poss
45cousinscousinNOUNNumber=Plur49 livensubj
46thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art48 fowlsdet
47bushbushNOUNNumber=Sing48 fowlscompound
48fowlsfowlNOUNNumber=Plur45 cousinsconj
49liveliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin36 livedconj
50ininADP_52 bushcase
51thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art52 bushdet
52bushbushNOUNNumber=Sing49 liveobl
53..PUNCT_10 lookedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1getpastcocks = cockto the men's houses resultvn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result
2lookpastcocks = cockabout propertyvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3findpastcocks = cock not said herevn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4ispastmuch propertytree rules
5eatto-infinitivevn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6ispastcocks = cockcomfortable propertytree rules
7decidepastcocks = cockvn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8stay not said to happento-infinitivecocks = cock not said herevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9livepresent · perfecteverwith the men; since propertyvn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with man=Location
10livepresentcocks's cousins and the bush fowlsthe bushvn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bush=Location

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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