Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 33
But when the rainy season came he made another plan to kill him, which he told his wife at night, fortunately in the hearing of the rabbit, who told Agbor.
Who acts: rainy season, boy, rabbit · What happens: come, make, kill, tell, hear · To what, where: plan, boy, wife, 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 (rainy season, boy, rabbit), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 came | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 season | det |
| 4 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 season | amod |
| 5 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | advcl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 plan | det |
| 10 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 kill | mark |
| 12 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 plan | acl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kill | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 told | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 told | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 told | nsubj |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 plan | parataxis |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 told | iobj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 night | case |
| 21 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 told | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hearing | punct |
| 23 | fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 26 hearing | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 hearing | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hearing | det |
| 26 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 rabbit | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 rabbit | det |
| 29 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hearing | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 told | punct |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 told | nsubj |
| 32 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 rabbit | acl:relcl |
| 33 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 told | iobj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the rainy season | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | past | boy | another plan | the hearing of the rabbit conj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Product | |||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | boy not said here | boy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | boy | another plan | boy's wife | night | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient which=Topic | ||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | the rabbit | Agbor | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent agbor=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | hear | the rabbit | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=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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