Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 41
She also told him that if the crocodile showed his head he was to cast the noose round him and tie him up securely.
Who acts: chief, crocodile · What happens: tell, show, be, tie up · To what, where: son, head, crocodile · 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 (chief, crocodile), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 told | advmod |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 showed | mark |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 showed | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crocodile | det |
| 8 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 showed | nsubj |
| 9 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cast | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 showed | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cast | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cast | cop |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 cast | mark |
| 15 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 noose | det |
| 17 | noose | noose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cast | obj |
| 18 | round | round | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cast | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 tie | cc |
| 21 | tie | tie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 cast | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 tie | obj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 tie | compound:prt |
| 24 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 21 tie | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | chief | son | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | show a condition, not said to happen | past | the crocodile | crocodile's head | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent head=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | past | crocodile | round son; the noose obj; cast property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tie up | infinitive | crocodile not said here | crocodile | securely property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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