Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 36
As usual, the hare stole the meat at night and the animal was killed the next day.
Who acts: usual hare · What happens: steal, kill · To what, where: meat, animal
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 (usual hare), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 usual | case |
| 2 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hare | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 usual | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hare | det |
| 5 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stole | nsubj |
| 6 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 meat | det |
| 8 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stole | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stole | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 killed | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 animal | det |
| 13 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 killed | aux:pass |
| 15 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stole | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 day | det |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 day | amod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 killed | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past | the usual hare | the meat | night | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location meat=Theme | |||
| 2 | kill | past · passive | the animal | day | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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