Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 35
Having done this he would hand the girl over to his best friend to rub all over with camwood.
Who acts: man · What happens: do, hand, rub · To what, where: this, girl
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 | Having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 done | aux |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 hand | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 done | obj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hand | aux |
| 6 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hand | obj |
| 9 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 friend | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 friend | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friend | nmod:poss |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 friend | amod |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hand | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 rub | mark |
| 15 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 friend | acl |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 over | advmod |
| 17 | over | over | ADV | _ | 15 rub | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 camwood | case |
| 19 | camwood | camwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rub | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | gerund · perfect | man not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hand | would | man | the girl | man's best friend advcl | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | |||
| 3 | rub | to-infinitive | man not said here | with camwood; over property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with camwood=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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