Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 14
Very soon after Awu had departed, the driver ants discovered Agbor and quickly covered him, commencing to eat him.
Who acts: Awu, driver ants · What happens: depart, discover, cover, commence, eat · To what, where: Agbor
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, E. Dayrell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Awu, driver ants), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 discovered | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 departed | mark |
| 4 | Awu | Awu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 departed | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 departed | aux |
| 6 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 soon | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ants | det |
| 9 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ants | compound |
| 10 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 discovered | nsubj |
| 11 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 discovered | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 covered | cc |
| 14 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 15 covered | advmod |
| 15 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 discovered | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 covered | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 commencing | punct |
| 18 | commencing | commence | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 covered | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 eat | mark |
| 20 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 commencing | xcomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 eat | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | past · perfect | Awu | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | discover | past | the driver ants | Agbor | soon property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agbor=Topic | |||
| 3 | cover | past | the driver ants not said here | Agbor | quickly property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination | |||
| 4 | commence | gerund | the driver ants not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | the driver ants not said here | Agbor | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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