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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 46

After Agbor Adam had eaten the fish, he returned to the hunting shelter, where the men were all sitting down, not noticing that the bird had been following him all the time.

Who acts: Agbor, men, bird · What happens: eat, return, sit down, not notice, follow · To what, where: fish, AGBOR

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Agbor, men, bird), 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

marknsubjflatauxadvcldetobjpunctnsubjcasedetcompoundoblpunctadvmoddetnsubjauxadvmodconjcompound:prtpunctadvmodadvclmarkdetnsubjauxauxconjobjdet:predetdetobl:unmarkedpunctrootAfterSCONJAgborPROPNAdamPROPNhadAUXeatenVERBtheDETfishNOUN,PUNCThePRONreturnedVERBtoADPtheDEThuntingNOUNshelterNOUN,PUNCTwhereADVtheDETmenNOUNwereAUXallADVsittingVERBdownADP,PUNCTnotPARTnoticingVERBthatSCONJtheDETbirdNOUNhadAUXbeenAUXfollowingVERBhimPRONallDETtheDETtimeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AfterafterSCONJ_5 eatenmark
2AgborAgborPROPNNumber=Sing5 eatennsubj
3AdamAdamPROPNNumber=Sing2 Agborflat
4hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 eatenaux
5eateneatVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part10 returnedadvcl
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 fishdet
7fishfishNOUNNumber=Sing5 eatenobj
8,,PUNCT_5 eatenpunct
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 returnednsubj
10returnedreturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11totoADP_14 sheltercase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 shelterdet
13huntinghuntingNOUNNumber=Sing14 sheltercompound
14sheltershelterNOUNNumber=Sing10 returnedobl
15,,PUNCT_21 sittingpunct
16wherewhereADVPronType=Rel21 sittingadvmod
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 mendet
18menmanNOUNNumber=Plur21 sittingnsubj
19werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 sittingaux
20allallADV_21 sittingadvmod
21sittingsitVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part10 returnedconj
22downdownADP_21 sittingcompound:prt
23,,PUNCT_25 noticingpunct
24notnotPARTPolarity=Neg25 noticingadvmod
25noticingnoticeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part21 sittingadvcl
26thatthatSCONJ_31 followingmark
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 birddet
28birdbirdNOUNNumber=Sing31 followingnsubj
29hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin31 followingaux
30beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part31 followingaux
31followingfollowVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part25 noticingconj
32himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 followingobj
33allallDETPronType=Tot35 timedet:predet
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 timedet
35timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing31 followingobl:unmarked
36..PUNCT_10 returnedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1eatpast · perfectAgborthe fishvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
2returnpastAGBORto the hunting shelter resultvn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to shelter=Result
3sit downpast · progressivethe menall propertyvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4not noticegerundthe men not said herevn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5followpast · perfect · progressivethe birdAGBORtimevn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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