Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 29
The brothers and sisters of the girl would be given _tombo_ to drink, and in addition the sisters would receive one fathom of cloth each.
Who acts: sisters · What happens: give, drink, receive · To what, where: brothers, one fathom, addition
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 (sisters), 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 brothers | det |
| 2 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 given | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sisters | cc |
| 4 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 brothers | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 girl | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brothers | nmod |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 given | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 given | aux:pass |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 tombo | punct |
| 12 | tombo | tombo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obj |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 given | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 drink | mark |
| 15 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 _ | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 receive | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 receive | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 addition | case |
| 19 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 receive | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sisters | det |
| 21 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 receive | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 receive | aux |
| 23 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 given | parataxis |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 fathom | nummod |
| 25 | fathom | fathom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 receive | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 cloth | case |
| 27 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fathom | nmod |
| 28 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 receive | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | would · passive | the brothers of the girl and sisters | tombo obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient tombo=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drink | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | receive | would | the sisters | one fathom of cloth | addition | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent fathom=Theme each=Location |
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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