Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 47
At last the people offered him a large basket of eggs, whereupon the hawk immediately closed the bargain, handed over Agbor to his mother, and flew away with the basket of eggs in his claws.
Who acts: last people, hawk · What happens: offer, close, hand, fly away · To what, where: large basket, HAWK, bargain, mother, Agbor, claws
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 (last people, hawk), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 offered | nsubj |
| 5 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 offered | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 basket | det |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 basket | amod |
| 9 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 offered | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 eggs | case |
| 11 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 basket | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 closed | punct |
| 13 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 closed | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hawk | det |
| 15 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 closed | nsubj |
| 16 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 17 closed | advmod |
| 17 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 basket | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bargain | det |
| 19 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 closed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 handed | punct |
| 21 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 bargain | acl |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 Agbor | case |
| 23 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 handed | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 mother | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mother | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 handed | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 flew | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 flew | cc |
| 29 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 offered | parataxis |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 flew | advmod |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 basket | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 basket | det |
| 33 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 flew | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 eggs | case |
| 35 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 basket | nmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 claws | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 claws | nmod:poss |
| 38 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 flew | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | the last people | a large basket of eggs | HAWK | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal basket=Theme | |||
| 2 | close | past | the hawk | the bargain | immediately, whereupon property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Patient | |||
| 3 | hand | participle | the bargain not said here | HAWK's mother | Agbor | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to mother=Destination | |||
| 4 | fly away | past | HAWK's claws | with the basket of eggs; away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in claw=Location |
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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