Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 37
He would then buy two pieces of cloth and one blanket, and hang them round the walls of the house.
Who acts: man · What happens: buy, hang · To what, where: two pieces, pieces
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 buy | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 buy | aux |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 buy | advmod |
| 4 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 pieces | nummod |
| 6 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 buy | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cloth | case |
| 8 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pieces | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 blanket | cc |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 blanket | nummod |
| 11 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pieces | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hang | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hang | cc |
| 14 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 buy | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hang | obj |
| 16 | round | round | ADP | _ | 18 walls | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 walls | det |
| 18 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hang | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 walls | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | would | man | two pieces of cloth and one blanket | then | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | |||
| 2 | hang | infinitive | man not said here | pieces = piece | round the walls of the house | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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