Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 51
Let me go!” but the rubber never answered, and held on tighter than ever.
Who acts: you, me, rubber · What happens: let, go, not answer, hold · To what, where: me, tighter · 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 (you, me, rubber), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 answered | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rubber | det |
| 8 | rubber | rubber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 answered | advmod |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 held | cc |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 tighter | case |
| 15 | tighter | tight | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 held | obl |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 ever | case |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 tighter | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | me not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not answer speech: assert in a quote | past | the rubber | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hold in a quote | participle | tighter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tight=Location |
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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