Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 40
Now, the tortoise was looked upon as one of the wisest of all animals.
What happens: look · To what, where: 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 looked | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tortoise | det |
| 4 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 looked | aux:pass |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 looked | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wisest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wisest | det |
| 12 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 animals | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 animals | det |
| 15 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wisest | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · passive | the tortoise | now | upon one of the wisest of all animals | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
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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