Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 19
He will then place the stick on the ground and take another, saying “This is one fathom of cloth I gave to the girl.”
Who acts: place stick, This · What happens: take, say, be, give · To what, where: another, one fathom, cloth, girl, place stick · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place stick, This), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stick | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 stick | aux |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stick | advmod |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stick | compound |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stick | det |
| 6 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stick | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 take | cc |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stick | conj |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 take | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 stick | acl |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 fathom | punct |
| 16 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 fathom | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 fathom | cop |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 fathom | nummod |
| 19 | fathom | fathom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saying | ccomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 cloth | case |
| 21 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fathom | nmod |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 cloth | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 girl | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 girl | det |
| 26 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 fathom | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 fathom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | infinitive | another | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the place stick man on the ground not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | This | one fathom | of cloth | tree rules | |||
| 4 | give in a quote | past | the place stick man on the ground = stick | cloth not said here | the girl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme to girl=Recipient |
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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