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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 67

It did not take long, however, to discover that he had taken refuge in the cotton tree, so they all went there and found the rope hanging down.

Who acts: It, hare, people, rope · What happens: not take, discover, take, go, find, hang down · To what, where: refuge, cotton tree, rope

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 (It, hare, people, rope), 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

nsubjauxadvmodadvmodpunctadvmodpunctmarkconjmarknsubjauxccompobjcasedetcompoundoblpunctadvmodnsubjadvmodparataxisadvmodccconjdetobjacladvmodpunctrootItPRONdidAUXnotPARTtakeVERBlongADJ,PUNCThoweverADV,PUNCTtoPARTdiscoverVERBthatSCONJhePRONhadAUXtakenVERBrefugeNOUNinADPtheDETcottonNOUNtreeNOUN,PUNCTsoADVtheyPRONallDETwentVERBthereADVandCCONJfoundVERBtheDETropeNOUNhangingVERBdownADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 takensubj
2diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 takeaux
3notnotPARTPolarity=Neg4 takeadvmod
4taketakeVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
5longlongADJDegree=Pos4 takeadvmod
6,,PUNCT_10 discoverpunct
7howeverhoweverADV_10 discoveradvmod
8,,PUNCT_10 discoverpunct
9totoPART_10 discovermark
10discoverdiscoverVERBVerbForm=Inf4 takeconj
11thatthatSCONJ_14 takenmark
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 takennsubj
13hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 takenaux
14takentakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part10 discoverccomp
15refugerefugeNOUNNumber=Sing14 takenobj
16ininADP_19 treecase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 treedet
18cottoncottonNOUNNumber=Sing19 treecompound
19treetreeNOUNNumber=Sing14 takenobl
20,,PUNCT_24 wentpunct
21sosoADV_24 wentadvmod
22theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs24 wentnsubj
23allallDETPronType=Tot24 wentadvmod
24wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 takeparataxis
25therethereADVPronType=Dem24 wentadvmod
26andandCCONJ_27 foundcc
27foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 wentconj
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 ropedet
29roperopeNOUNNumber=Sing27 foundobj
30hanginghangVERBVerbForm=Ger29 ropeacl
31downdownADV_30 hangingadvmod
32..PUNCT_4 takepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not takepast · do-supportItvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2discoverto-infinitivehowever propertyvn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3takepast · perfectharerefugethe cotton treevn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in tree=Location
4gopastpeopletherevn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5findpastpeople not said herethe ropevn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Topic
6hang downgerundthe rope not said heredown propertyvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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