Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 87

When they arrived at the forest they separated, Igiri going in one direction and Inkang going off in another, but not so far away that they could not hear one another shout.

Who acts: IGIRI · What happens: arrive, separate, go, go off, not hear · To what, where: forest, one direction, another, one

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 (IGIRI), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 arrived	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 arrived	nsubj
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrived	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 separated	nsubj
8	separated	separate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 forest	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 going	punct
10	Igiri	Igiri	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 going	nsubj
11	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 arrived	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 direction	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 direction	nummod
14	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 going	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Inkang	cc
16	Inkang	Inkang	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 direction	conj
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 going	parataxis
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 going	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 another	case
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 going	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 away	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 away	cc
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 away	advmod
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 away	advmod
25	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 away	advmod
26	away	away	ADV	_	3 arrived	advmod
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 hear	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 hear	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 hear	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 hear	advmod
31	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 away	advcl
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 hear	obj
33	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	34 shout	det
34	shout	shout	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hear	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	IGIRI		the forest	away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	separate	past	IGIRI	the forest not said here			vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Patient
3	go	gerund	Igiri		one direction and Inkang		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=Location
4	go off	gerund			another		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in another=Location
5	not hear	could	IGIRI	one		another shout obj	tree rules

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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 87

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 87