Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 48
This opinion is influenced to a great extent by the value of the presents received from the young man and how much he has helped the parents with their work on the farm.
Who acts: parents · What happens: influence, receive, help, value, work · To what, where: opinion, much, presents, farm
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 (parents), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 opinion | det |
| 2 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 influenced | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 influenced | aux:pass |
| 4 | influenced | influence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 extent | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 extent | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 extent | amod |
| 8 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 influenced | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 value | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 value | det |
| 11 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 received | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 presents | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 presents | det |
| 14 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 value | nmod |
| 15 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 influenced | parataxis |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 man | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 received | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 helped | cc |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 much | advmod |
| 22 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 helped | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 helped | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 helped | aux |
| 25 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 received | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 parents | det |
| 27 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 helped | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 work | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 work | nmod:poss |
| 30 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 helped | obl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 farm | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 farm | det |
| 33 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 work | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 influenced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | influence | present · passive | this opinion | to a great extent | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | receive | past | by the value of the presents; from the young man | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from man=Source | |||||
| 3 | help | present · perfect · passive | much | with parents's work on the farm; man nsubj; the parents obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | value | the presents | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | work | parents = parent | the farm | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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