Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 41
The girl would remain in one room for about two weeks after the above-mentioned operation, until the wound was healed, and then the man would give a feast to all his friends, the cost of the food forming part of the dowry.
Who acts: girl, man, food · What happens: remain, mention, heal, give, form, cost · To what, where: one room, wound, feast, friends, part, food
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 (girl, man, food), 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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remain | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 remain | aux |
| 4 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 room | nummod |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remain | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 weeks | case |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 two | advmod |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 weeks | nummod |
| 11 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 remain | obl |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 operation | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 operation | det |
| 14 | above | above | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mentioned | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 above | punct |
| 16 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 operation | amod |
| 17 | operation | operation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remain | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 healed | punct |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 healed | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wound | det |
| 21 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 healed | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 healed | aux:pass |
| 23 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 remain | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 give | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 give | cc |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 give | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 man | det |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 give | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 give | aux |
| 30 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 healed | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 feast | det |
| 32 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 give | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 friends | case |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 friends | det:predet |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 friends | nmod:poss |
| 36 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 give | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 cost | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 cost | det |
| 39 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 friends | appos |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 food | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 food | det |
| 42 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 cost | nmod |
| 43 | forming | form | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 food | acl |
| 44 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 forming | obj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 dowry | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 dowry | det |
| 47 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 part | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | would | the girl | one room | after the mentioned operation; week | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location | |||
| 2 | mention speech: other | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | heal | past · passive | the wound | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | give | would | the man | a feast | man's friends | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent feast=Theme to friend=Recipient | ||
| 5 | form | gerund | the food not said here | part of the dowry | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme | ||||
| 6 | cost | the food | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=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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