Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 21
In reality the hare suggested Keroho for a very different reason, and that reason was that Keroho was a fat animal in good condition, and far too lazy and sleepy to guard the meat properly.
Who acts: hare, reason · What happens: suggest, be, guard · To what, where: Keroho, reality, fat animal, good condition, meat
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 (hare, reason), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 reality | case |
| 2 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suggested | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hare | det |
| 4 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suggested | nsubj |
| 5 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Keroho | Keroho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 suggested | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 reason | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 reason | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 different | advmod |
| 10 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 reason | amod |
| 11 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suggested | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 animal | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 animal | cc |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 reason | det |
| 15 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 animal | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 animal | cop |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 animal | mark |
| 18 | Keroho | Keroho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 animal | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 animal | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 animal | det |
| 21 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 animal | amod |
| 22 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suggested | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 condition | case |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 condition | amod |
| 25 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 animal | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lazy | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 lazy | cc |
| 28 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 lazy | advmod |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 30 lazy | advmod |
| 30 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 suggested | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 sleepy | cc |
| 32 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 lazy | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 guard | mark |
| 34 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 sleepy | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 meat | det |
| 36 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 guard | obj |
| 37 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 34 guard | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 suggested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | past | the hare | Keroho | reality | for a different reason | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent keroho=Topic | ||
| 2 | is a | past | that reason | a fat animal | good condition | Keroho nsubj | tree rules | ||
| 3 | guard | to-infinitive | the hare not said here | the meat | properly property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Beneficiary |
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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