Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 51
So he flew from town to town, taking chickens from every compound.
Who acts: HAWK · What happens: fly, take · To what, where: town, chickens, compound
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 town | case |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 taking | punct |
| 9 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 flew | advcl |
| 10 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 taking | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 compound | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 compound | det |
| 13 | compound | compound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taking | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | HAWK | town | to town | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from town=Initial_Location to town=Destination | |||
| 2 | take | gerund | HAWK not said here | chickens | every compound | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent chicken=Theme from compound=Initial_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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