Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 25
When the rabbit heard this he went off and told Agbor, who was very glad that she had arranged matters with the Queen of the White Ants.
Who acts: rabbit, Agbor, chief · What happens: hear, go off, tell, be, arrange, matter · To what, where: this, Agbor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rabbit, Agbor, chief), 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 | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rabbit | det |
| 3 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heard | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 went | compound:prt |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 11 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 glad | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 glad | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 glad | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 glad | advmod |
| 16 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Agbor | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 arranged | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 arranged | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 arranged | aux |
| 20 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 matters | csubj:pass |
| 21 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 glad | advcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 Queen | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Queen | det |
| 24 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 matters | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Ants | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Ants | det |
| 27 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Ants | amod |
| 28 | Ants | Ant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 24 Queen | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the rabbit | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go off | past | Agbor | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Agbor not said here | Agbor | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent agbor=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Agbor | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | arrange | past · perfect | chief | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | matter | present | Agbor not said here | with the Queen of the White Ants | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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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