Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 60
The tortoise then charged the hare with attempting to steal the king’s meat, and told the people of the trap he had set.
Who acts: tortoise, trap · What happens: charge, attempt, steal, tell, set · To what, where: hare, meat, people, tortoise · 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 (tortoise, trap), 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 tortoise | det |
| 2 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 charged | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 charged | advmod |
| 4 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hare | det |
| 6 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 charged | obj |
| 7 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 8 attempting | mark |
| 8 | attempting | attempt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 charged | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 steal | mark |
| 10 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 attempting | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meat | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 king | case |
| 14 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 steal | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 told | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 told | cc |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 charged | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 people | det |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 told | iobj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 trap | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 trap | det |
| 22 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 people | nmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 set | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 set | aux |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 trap | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 charged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charge | past | the tortoise | the hare | then | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hare=Theme | |||
| 2 | attempt | gerund | the tortoise not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | steal not said to happen | to-infinitive | the tortoise not said here | the king's meat | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location meat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | the tortoise not said here | the people of the trap | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | set | past · perfect · passive | the trap not said here | tortoise | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
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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