Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxx.--the Game of Hide-and-seek As Played By the Hawk and the Bush Cow., sentence 7
One day the eagle went to the antelope and challenged him to play at a game of hiding between the birds and animals.
Who acts: eagle, game · What happens: go, challenge, play, hide · To what, where: king, game
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 (eagle, game), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 eagle | det |
| 4 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 antelope | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 antelope | det |
| 8 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 challenged | cc |
| 10 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 challenged | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 play | mark |
| 13 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 challenged | xcomp |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 game | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 game | det |
| 16 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 play | obl |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 hiding | mark |
| 18 | hiding | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 game | acl |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 birds | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 birds | det |
| 21 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hiding | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 animals | cc |
| 23 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 birds | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the eagle | day | to the antelope | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to antelope=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | challenge | past | the eagle not said here | king | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | play | to-infinitive | the eagle not said here | a game | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | hide | gerund | a game not said here | between the birds and animals | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between bird=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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