Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 66
As the hare did not appear at the appointed time to pay the rods, the people went to his house, and found that they had all disappeared.
Who acts: people · What happens: not appear, appoint, pay, go, find, disappear · To what, where: rods, house
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 (people), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 hare | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hare | det |
| 3 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appear | obl |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 appear | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 appear | advmod |
| 6 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appear | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pay | mark |
| 12 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 appear | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rods | det |
| 14 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pay | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 appear | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 house | nmod:poss |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 found | cc |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 went | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 disappeared | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 disappeared | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 disappeared | aux |
| 28 | all | all | ADV | _ | 29 disappeared | advmod |
| 29 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 found | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not appear | past · do-support | time | as the hare | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | the rods | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Asset | |||||
| 4 | go | past | the people | hare's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | find | past | the people not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | disappear | past · perfect | people | all property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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