Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 42
The girl would then go to live with her husband, and the ceremony would be completed.
Who acts: girl · What happens: go, live, complete · To what, where: ceremony
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), 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 | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 live | mark |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 husband | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 husband | nmod:poss |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 live | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 completed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 completed | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ceremony | det |
| 14 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 completed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 completed | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 completed | aux:pass |
| 17 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 go | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | would | the girl | then | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | with girl's husband | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with husband=Location | ||||
| 3 | complete | would · passive | the ceremony | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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