Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 48

When all was quiet, and the hare thought everybody had gone to sleep, he went round to the back of the tortoise’s house and put his right hand out to take the meat, but when his hand closed on the rubber, he found that he could not remove it because the rubber was so sticky.

Who acts: all, hare, everybody, tortoise, rubber · What happens: be, think, go, sleep, go round, put · To what, where: back, right hand, meat, hand, rubber · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (all, hare, everybody, tortoise), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 quiet	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 quiet	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 quiet	cop
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thought	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hare	det
8	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thought	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 quiet	advcl
10	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 gone	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	aux
12	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 thought	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 sleep	mark
14	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 gone	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	ccomp
18	round	round	ADV	_	17 went	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 back	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 back	det
21	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	26 house	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tortoise	det
24	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 house	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 tortoise	case
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 back	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 put	cc
28	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 went	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hand	nmod:poss
30	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hand	amod
31	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obj
32	out	out	ADV	_	28 put	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 take	mark
34	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 put	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 meat	det
36	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 take	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 closed	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 closed	cc
39	when	when	SCONJ	_	42 closed	mark
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 hand	nmod:poss
41	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 closed	nsubj:pass
42	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 quiet	conj
43	on	on	ADP	_	45 rubber	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 rubber	det
45	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 closed	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 found	punct
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 found	nsubj
48	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 quiet	parataxis
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 remove	mark
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 remove	nsubj
51	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 remove	aux
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 remove	advmod
53	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 found	ccomp
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 remove	obj
55	because	because	SCONJ	_	60 sticky	mark
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 rubber	det
57	rubber	rubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 sticky	nsubj
58	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 sticky	cop
59	so	so	ADV	_	60 sticky	advmod
60	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 remove	advcl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 quiet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	all			quiet property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	the hare				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	go	past · perfect	everybody				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sleep	to-infinitive	everybody not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go round	past	hare		the back of the tortoise's house	round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to back=Initial_Location
6	put	infinitive	hare not said here	tortoise's right hand		out property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
7	take	to-infinitive	hare not said here	the meat			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme
8	close	participle · passive		tortoise's hand	the rubber		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
9	find	past	tortoise				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
10	not remove	could	tortoise	meat			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
11	is	past	the rubber			sticky property	tree rules

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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 48

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 48