Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 21
And so he goes on until the bundles are finished, the value of each article being noted in order to ascertain the total amount paid.
Who acts: man · What happens: go on, finish, note, ascertain, pay, value · To what, where: bundles, value, order, total amount, article
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 (man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 goes | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 goes | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 goes | advmod |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 finished | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bundles | det |
| 8 | bundles | bundle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 finished | aux:pass |
| 10 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 goes | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 noted | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 value | det |
| 13 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 noted | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 article | case |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 article | det |
| 16 | article | article | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 value | nmod |
| 17 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 noted | aux:pass |
| 18 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 goes | advcl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 order | case |
| 20 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 noted | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 ascertain | mark |
| 22 | ascertain | ascertain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 noted | ccomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 amount | det |
| 24 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 amount | amod |
| 25 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ascertain | obj |
| 26 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 amount | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | present | man | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | finish | present · passive | the bundles | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | note | gerund · passive | the value of each article | order | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ascertain | to-infinitive | the total amount | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Topic | |||||
| 5 | pay | participle | the total amount not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | value | each article | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=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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