Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 22
When the evening came, Keroho made a fire and cut up the body of the bush cat and set it out to dry.
Who acts: evening, Keroho · What happens: come, make, cut up, set out, dry · To what, where: fire, body
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 (evening, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 6 | Keroho | Keroho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cut | cc |
| 11 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 made | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 cut | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 body | det |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cut | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 cat | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cat | det |
| 17 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cat | compound |
| 18 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 body | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 set | cc |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cut | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 set | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 set | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 dry | mark |
| 24 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 set | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | past | Keroho | a fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | ||||
| 3 | cut up | participle | Keroho not said here | the body of the bush cat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset body=Product | ||||
| 4 | set out | infinitive | Keroho not said here | body | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | dry | to-infinitive | Keroho not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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