Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 64
This annoyed the leopard so much that he determined to take the boy back to his father and not to try and kill him any more as each time he tried he did something to damage himself.
Who acts: This, annoyed leopard, leopard · What happens: leopard, determine, take back, not try, kill, try · To what, where: boy, father, leopard, time, something
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 (This, annoyed leopard, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 leopard | nsubj |
| 2 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 leopard | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 leopard | det |
| 4 | leopard | leopard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 determined | nsubj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 leopard | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 determined | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 determined | nsubj |
| 9 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 take | mark |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 determined | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boy | det |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 take | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 father | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 try | cc |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 try | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 try | mark |
| 21 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 take | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 kill | cc |
| 23 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 try | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kill | obj |
| 25 | any | any | ADV | _ | 26 more | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 kill | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 time | case |
| 28 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 time | det |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kill | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 tried | nsubj |
| 31 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 time | acl:relcl |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 did | nsubj |
| 33 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 time | acl:relcl |
| 34 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 33 did | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 damage | mark |
| 36 | damage | damage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 something | acl |
| 37 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 damage | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leopard | This | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | determine | past | the annoyed leopard | leopard nsubj | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take back | to-infinitive | the annoyed leopard not said here | the boy | leopard's father | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme to father=Destination | |||
| 4 | not try | to-infinitive | the annoyed leopard not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | kill | infinitive | the annoyed leopard not said here | leopard | time | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 6 | try | past | leopard | each time not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | do | past | leopard | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | damage | to-infinitive | leopard not said here | leopard | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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