Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 20

The hare had suggested to the king that Keroho should be told to dry and guard the meat, and said to the king that, as Keroho only eat fruit, he would not be likely to steal any of the meat.

Who acts: king, Keroho · What happens: suggest, tell, dry, guard, say, eat · To what, where: hare, king, meat, fruit, any · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, Keroho), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hare	det
2	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suggested	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 suggested	aux
4	suggested	suggest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 king	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 suggested	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 told	nsubj:pass
9	Keroho	Keroho	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 told	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	aux:pass
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 king	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 dry	mark
14	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 told	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 guard	cc
16	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 dry	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 meat	det
18	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 guard	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 suggested	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 king	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 king	det
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obl
25	that	that	ADV	_	21 said	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 eat	punct
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 Keroho	case
28	Keroho	Keroho	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 eat	obl
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 eat	advmod
30	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 suggested	parataxis
31	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 eat	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 likely	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 likely	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 likely	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 likely	advmod
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 likely	cop
37	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 eat	advcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 steal	mark
39	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 likely	xcomp
40	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	39 steal	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 meat	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 meat	det
43	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 any	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 suggested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	past · perfect · passive		the hare	the king		vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to king=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	should · passive		the king		Keroho nsubj	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	dry not said to happen	to-infinitive	the king not said here				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	guard	infinitive	the king not said here	the meat			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Beneficiary
5	say speech: assert	past			the king	that property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient
6	eat	present		fruit		as Keroho	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
7	not is	would	Keroho			likely property	tree rules
8	steal	to-infinitive	Keroho not said here	any of the meat			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location any=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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 20