Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 38
The meat of the last animal that was killed was handed over to the tortoise.
What happens: kill, hand over · To what, where: last animal, meat, tortoise
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 meat | det |
| 2 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 handed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 animal | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 animal | det |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 animal | amod |
| 6 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 meat | nmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 killed | aux:pass |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 animal | acl:relcl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 handed | aux:pass |
| 11 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 handed | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 tortoise | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tortoise | det |
| 15 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 handed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | the last animal | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hand over | past · passive | the meat of the last animal | the tortoise | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to tortoise=Destination |
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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