Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 88

Igiri went on gathering the mushrooms and putting them in her basket, until at last she came across a very large mushroom which was fat and white.

Who acts: Igiri, INKANG, large mushroom · What happens: go, gather, put, come, be · To what, where: mushrooms, IGIRI, basket, large mushroom, last

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, INKANG, large mushroom), 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	Igiri	Igiri	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	SCONJ	_	4 gathering	mark
4	gathering	gather	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 went	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mushrooms	det
6	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gathering	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 putting	cc
8	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 gathering	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 putting	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 basket	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 basket	nmod:poss
12	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 putting	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
14	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 came	mark
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 came	obl
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
19	across	across	ADV	_	18 came	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 mushroom	det
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 large	advmod
22	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mushroom	amod
23	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 fat	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fat	cop
26	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mushroom	acl:relcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 white	cc
28	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fat	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Igiri				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	gather	gerund	Igiri not said here	the mushrooms			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mushroom=Theme
3	put	gerund	Igiri not said here	IGIRI	INKANG's basket		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in basket=Destination
4	come	past	INKANG	a large mushroom	last	across property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
5	is	past	a large mushroom			fat property	tree rules
6	be		a large mushroom not said here				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 88

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 88