Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 24

The hare, being very greedy and fond of meat, wanted to have it all to himself, so, when all the people had gone to bed, he slipped out of his house by the back way, and very soon had taken the dried meat out of Keroho’s yard and returned to his house, where he made a good meal, and buried what he could not eat.

Who acts: hare, people, Keroho · What happens: be, want, have, go, slip out, take · To what, where: meat, hare, bed, house, dried meat, good meal

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, people, 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	12 wanted	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 greedy	punct
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 greedy	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 greedy	advmod
6	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hare	acl:relcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fond	cc
8	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 greedy	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 meat	case
10	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fond	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hare	punct
12	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 have	mark
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wanted	xcomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 have	obj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 it	det
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 have	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gone	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	27 gone	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gone	punct
22	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 gone	mark
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 people	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 people	det
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 gone	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 gone	aux
27	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 wanted	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 bed	case
29	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gone	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 slipped	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 slipped	nsubj
32	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wanted	parataxis
33	out	out	ADP	_	36 house	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 house	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 house	nmod:poss
36	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 slipped	obl
37	by	by	ADP	_	40 way	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 way	det
39	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 way	compound
40	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 slipped	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 taken	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 taken	cc
43	very	very	ADV	_	44 soon	advmod
44	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	46 taken	advmod
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 taken	aux
46	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 slipped	parataxis
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 meat	det
48	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 meat	amod
49	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 taken	obj
50	out	out	ADP	_	54 yard	case
51	of	of	ADP	_	54 yard	case
52	Keroho	Keroho	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 yard	nmod:poss
53	’s	's	PART	_	52 Keroho	case
54	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 taken	obl
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 returned	cc
56	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 taken	conj
57	to	to	ADP	_	59 house	case
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 house	nmod:poss
59	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 returned	obl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 made	punct
61	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	63 made	advmod
62	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 made	nsubj
63	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 house	acl:relcl
64	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 meal	det
65	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 meal	amod
66	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 made	obj
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 buried	punct
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 buried	cc
69	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wanted	conj
70	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	74 eat	obj
71	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	74 eat	nsubj
72	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	74 eat	aux
73	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	74 eat	advmod
74	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	69 buried	ccomp
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	the hare not said here				greedy property	tree rules
2	be		the hare not said here				of meat	tree rules
3	want	past	the hare					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	the hare not said here	meat	hare			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	go	past · perfect	all people			bed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
6	slip out	past	hare	hare's house			by the back way	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent house=Patient
7	take	past · perfect		the dried meat			out Keroho's yard; soon property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent meat=Theme out yard=Initial_Location
8	dry	participle						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	return	past					to Keroho's house result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result
10	make	past	Keroho	a good meal				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Product
11	bury	past	the hare not said here					tree rules
12	not eat	could	Keroho				what obj	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 24

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 24