Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 36
The man would then build a house for the woman, being helped with the mudding of the walls by his sisters and the sisters of the girl.
Who acts: man, sisters · What happens: build, help · To what, where: house
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, 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 build | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 build | aux |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 build | advmod |
| 5 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 build | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 woman | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 build | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 helped | punct |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 helped | aux:pass |
| 13 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 build | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 mudding | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mudding | det |
| 16 | mudding | mudding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 helped | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 walls | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 walls | det |
| 19 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 mudding | nmod |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 sisters | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 helped | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sisters | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sisters | det |
| 25 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sisters | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 girl | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 girl | det |
| 28 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sisters | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 build | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | would | the man | a house | then | for the woman | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent house=Product for woman=Beneficiary | ||
| 2 | help | gerund · passive | man's sisters and the sisters of the girl | with the mudding of the walls | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with mudding=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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