Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 62
The hare begged for a little time to enable him to get the rods, which was allowed to him.
Who acts: hare · What happens: beg, enable, get, allow · To what, where: hare, rods
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 (hare), 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 hare | det |
| 2 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hare | acl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 enable | mark |
| 9 | enable | enable | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 time | acl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 enable | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 enable | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rods | det |
| 14 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 get | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 allowed | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 allowed | aux:pass |
| 18 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 rods | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 allowed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | participle | the hare not said here | time | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | enable | to-infinitive | hare | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | hare not said here | the rods | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rod=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | allow | past · passive | the rods | hare | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to he=Goal |
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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