Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 27
He was very frightened at this, and went to the meeting trembling in every limb.
What happens: be, go, tremble · To what, where: Keroho, this, meeting, limb
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: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 frightened | advmod |
| 4 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 frightened | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 meeting | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 meeting | det |
| 12 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 went | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 limb | case |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 limb | det |
| 16 | limb | limb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trembling | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · passive | Keroho | this | frightened property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | past | the meeting | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meeting=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | tremble | gerund | every limb | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in limb=Location |
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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