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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 eaten | mark |
| 2 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 eaten | nsubj |
| 3 | Adam | Adam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Agbor | flat |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eaten | aux |
| 5 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 returned | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fish | det |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eaten | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eaten | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 returned | nsubj |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 shelter | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shelter | det |
| 13 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shelter | compound |
| 14 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sitting | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 sitting | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 men | det |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sitting | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sitting | aux |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 sitting | advmod |
| 21 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 returned | conj |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 sitting | compound:prt |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 noticing | punct |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 noticing | advmod |
| 25 | noticing | notice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 sitting | advcl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 following | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bird | det |
| 28 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 following | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 following | aux |
| 30 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 following | aux |
| 31 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 noticing | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 following | obj |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 time | det:predet |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 time | det |
| 35 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 following | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect | Agbor | the fish | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | ||||
| 2 | return | past | AGBOR | to the hunting shelter result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to shelter=Result | ||||
| 3 | sit down | past · progressive | the men | all property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not notice | gerund | the men not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | follow | past · perfect · progressive | the bird | AGBOR | time | vn 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/25/46/