Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 30
The man would work on the parents’ farm for some months, and the girl would receive small presents from time to time.
Who acts: man, girl · What happens: work, receive · To what, where: small presents
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, girl), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 work | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 work | aux |
| 4 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 farm | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 parents | det |
| 7 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 farm | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 7 parents | case |
| 9 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 work | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 months | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 months | det |
| 12 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 work | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 receive | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 receive | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 receive | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 receive | aux |
| 18 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 work | conj |
| 19 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 presents | amod |
| 20 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 receive | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 receive | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 time | case |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 receive | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | would | the man | month | on the parents's farm | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on farm=Theme | |||
| 2 | receive | would | the girl | small presents | time | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Theme |
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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