Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 56

After they had finished their evening meal the leopard told Agberamfe to sleep with his sons, but the boy suspecting that the leopard had designs upon his life, waited until the leopard’s sons had gone to sleep and then having placed a log in his bed went outside to sleep.

Who acts: rabbit, leopard, evening meal, boy, sons, log · What happens: finish, tell, sleep, suspect, have, wait · To what, where: evening meal, Agberamfe, designs · 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, leopard, evening meal, boy), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 finished	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 meal	nmod:poss
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meal	compound
7	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finished	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 leopard	det
9	leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 meal	acl:relcl
11	Agberamfe	Agberamfe	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 told	iobj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 sleep	mark
13	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	xcomp
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 sons	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sons	nmod:poss
16	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sleep	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 waited	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 waited	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boy	det
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 waited	nsubj
21	suspecting	suspect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 boy	acl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 had	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 leopard	det
24	leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 suspecting	ccomp
26	designs	design	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 had	obj
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 life	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 life	nmod:poss
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 boy	punct
31	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	conj
32	until	until	SCONJ	_	38 gone	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 leopard	det
34	leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sons	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 leopard	case
36	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 gone	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 gone	aux
38	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 waited	advcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 sleep	mark
40	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 gone	advcl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 placed	cc
42	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 having	advmod
43	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 placed	aux
44	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 gone	conj
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 log	det
46	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 went	nsubj
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 bed	case
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 bed	nmod:poss
49	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 log	nmod
50	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 placed	parataxis
51	outside	outside	ADV	_	50 went	advmod
52	to	to	PART	_	53 sleep	mark
53	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 went	advcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	rabbit	rabbit's evening meal			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality meal=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	past	the leopard	rabbit's evening meal not said here	Agberamfe		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent agberamfe=Recipient clause=Topic
3	sleep not said to happen	to-infinitive	rabbit's evening meal not said here			with leopard's sons	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	suspect	gerund	the boy not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	have	past	the leopard	designs		upon leopard's life	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent design=Patient
6	wait	past	the boy				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	go	past · perfect	the leopard's sons				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	sleep	to-infinitive	the leopard's sons not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	place	gerund · perfect	the leopard's sons not said here				vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent
10	go	past	a log in leopard's bed			outside property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	sleep	to-infinitive	a log in leopard's bed not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 56