Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 36

When the hawk heard that Awu was dead he told Agbor that the next day he should go and cry at his mother’s side, so, when the morning came, the hawk dressed Agbor up and he started off to cry.

Who acts: hawk, Awu, morning · What happens: hear, be, tell, go, cry, come · To what, where: Agbor, side · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (hawk, Awu, morning), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hawk	det
3	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 dead	mark
6	Awu	Awu	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 dead	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	cop
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heard	ccomp
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Agbor	Agbor	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 told	iobj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 go	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 day	det
14	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 day	amod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl:unmarked
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cry	cc
20	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 go	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	25 side	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mother	nmod:poss
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 side	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 mother	case
25	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cry	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	32 came	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct
29	when	when	SCONJ	_	32 came	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 morning	det
31	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 dressed	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hawk	det
35	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 dressed	nsubj
36	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 came	parataxis
37	Agbor	Agbor	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 dressed	obj
38	up	up	ADP	_	36 dressed	compound:prt
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 started	cc
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 started	nsubj
41	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 dressed	conj
42	off	off	ADP	_	41 started	compound:prt
43	to	to	PART	_	44 cry	mark
44	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 started	xcomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the hawk						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	Awu					dead property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	HAWK		Agbor				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent agbor=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go not said to happen	should	HAWK				day		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cry speech: express	infinitive	HAWK not said here			HAWK's mother's side			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at side=Location
6	come	past	the morning						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	dress up	past	the hawk	Agbor					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agbor=Patient
8	start off	past	HAWK						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	HAWK not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 36