Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxx.--the Game of Hide-and-seek As Played By the Hawk and the Bush Cow., sentence 8
He chose the hawk to represent the birds, and the antelope selected the bush cow on the animals’ side.
Who acts: king, antelope · What happens: choose, represent, select · To what, where: hawk, birds, bush cow, side
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 (king, antelope), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 chose | nsubj |
| 2 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hawk | det |
| 4 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chose | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 represent | mark |
| 6 | represent | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 chose | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 birds | det |
| 8 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 represent | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 selected | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 selected | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 antelope | det |
| 12 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 selected | nsubj |
| 13 | selected | select | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 chose | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cow | det |
| 15 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cow | compound |
| 16 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 selected | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 animals | det |
| 19 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 side | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 19 animals | case |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 selected | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | king | the hawk | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hawk=Theme | ||||
| 2 | represent | to-infinitive | king not said here | the birds | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bird=Theme | ||||
| 3 | select | past | the antelope | the bush cow | the animals's side | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=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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