Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxx.--the Game of Hide-and-seek As Played By the Hawk and the Bush Cow., sentence 41
The hawks still continue to kill the chickens, but the cocks and hens always run and take shelter when they see the hawk coming.
Who acts: hawks, cocks, hawk · What happens: continue, kill, run, take, see, come · To what, where: chickens, shelter, hawk
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 (hawks, cocks, hawk), 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 hawks | det |
| 2 | hawks | hawk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 continue | nsubj |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 continue | advmod |
| 4 | continue | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 kill | mark |
| 6 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 continue | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chickens | det |
| 8 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kill | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 run | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 run | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cocks | det |
| 12 | cocks | cock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 run | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hens | cc |
| 14 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cocks | conj |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 run | advmod |
| 16 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 continue | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 take | cc |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 continue | conj |
| 19 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 see | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hawk | det |
| 24 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obj |
| 25 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 hawk | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 continue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | present | the hawks | still | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | the hawks not said here | the chickens | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | present | the cocks and hens | always property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | present | the hawks not said here | shelter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see | present | cocks = cock | the hawk | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hawk=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | come | gerund | the hawk not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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