Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 39
Very soon afterwards, the hawk arrived on the scene to take Agbor away, but his mother would not part with him.
Who acts: hawk, mother · What happens: arrive, take away, not part · To what, where: scene, 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 (hawk, mother), 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 | 3 afterwards | advmod |
| 3 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 7 arrived | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 afterwards | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hawk | det |
| 6 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | nsubj |
| 7 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 scene | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 scene | det |
| 10 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 take | mark |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 arrived | advcl |
| 13 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 take | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 part | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 part | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 part | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 part | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 part | advmod |
| 21 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 part | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the hawk | the scene | afterwards property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | take away | to-infinitive | the hawk not said here | Agbor | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agbor=Theme | |||
| 3 | not part | would | Agbor's mother | with Agbor | tree rules |
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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