Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 18
Now, Keroho is a fruit-eating animal, who is very lazy, and sleeps most of the day.
Who acts: Keroho, eating animal · What happens: eat, be, sleep · To what, where: eating animal, most
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Keroho, eating animal), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 animal | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | Keroho | Keroho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 animal | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 animal | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 animal | det |
| 6 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eating | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 fruit | punct |
| 8 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 animal | amod |
| 9 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lazy | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lazy | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 lazy | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 lazy | advmod |
| 14 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 animal | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sleeps | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sleeps | cc |
| 17 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 lazy | parataxis |
| 18 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 sleeps | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 day | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 most | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 animal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | gerund | fruit compound | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | Keroho | a eating animal | now | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | a eating animal | lazy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sleep | present | most of the day | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme |
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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