Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 29
The following morning, therefore, she rose at first cock crow and went to the hawk’s house, where she found Agbor and took a great fancy to him.
Who acts: Awu · What happens: follow, rise, go, find, take · To what, where: house, Agbor, great fancy
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 8 rose | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rose | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rose | nsubj |
| 8 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 crow | case |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 crow | amod |
| 11 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crow | compound |
| 12 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rose | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hawk | det |
| 17 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 hawk | case |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 found | punct |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 found | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 found | nsubj |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rose | conj |
| 24 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 found | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 took | cc |
| 26 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 found | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 fancy | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fancy | amod |
| 29 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 took | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 took | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | rise | past | Awu | morning | at first cock crow; therefore property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at crow=Location | |||
| 3 | go | past | Awu not said here | the hawk's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | find | past | Awu | Agbor | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agbor=Topic | ||||
| 5 | take | past | Awu not said here | a great fancy | Agbor | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme to he=Destination |
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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