Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 58
The leopard was very angry when he found what he had done, so that the next evening he shut the boy up in the goat house.
Who acts: leopard · What happens: be, find, do, shut up · To what, where: boy, goat house · 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 (leopard), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 leopard | det |
| 2 | leopard | leopard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 angry | advmod |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 found | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | advcl |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 done | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 done | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 found | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shut | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 shut | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 evening | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 evening | det |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 evening | amod |
| 18 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shut | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 shut | nsubj |
| 20 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 boy | det |
| 22 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shut | obj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 shut | compound:prt |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 house | det |
| 26 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 house | compound |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shut | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the leopard | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | past | leopard | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | leopard | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | shut up | past | leopard | the boy | the goat house | evening | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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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