Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 43
Before going into the bush, he gave his wife strict injunctions not to let the meat out of her sight.
Who acts: animal, wife · What happens: go, give, not let, sight · To what, where: bush, strict injunctions, wife, meat, sight
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 (animal, wife), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 going | mark |
| 2 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 gave | advcl |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 bush | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bush | det |
| 5 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 going | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 going | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 11 | strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 injunctions | amod |
| 12 | injunctions | injunction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 gave | obj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 let | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 let | mark |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 gave | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 meat | det |
| 17 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 let | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 sight | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 sight | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sight | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 let | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | animal not said here | the bush | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bush=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | give | past | animal | strict injunctions | animal's wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient injunction=Theme | |||
| 3 | not let | to-infinitive | animal not said here | the meat | wife's sight | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme | |||
| 4 | sight | wife | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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