Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 71
On hearing this the mammie tortoise got her basket and went off to the cotton tree.
Who acts: mammie tortoise · What happens: hear, get, go off · To what, where: this, basket
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 (mammie tortoise), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 got | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 hearing | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tortoise | det |
| 5 | mammie | mammie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tortoise | compound |
| 6 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 basket | nmod:poss |
| 9 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 went | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 tree | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 15 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tree | compound |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the mammie tortoise not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | get | past | the mammie tortoise | shell's basket | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer basket=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go off | past | the mammie tortoise not said here | to the cotton tree | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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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