Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 67
He done catch them thing and one night he stop for one country, he no know how them call him.
Who acts: boy, ’ · What happens: do, catch, stop, know, call · To what, where: ’, thing, boy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boy, ’), 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 | 2 done | nsubj |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 done | xcomp |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 catch | obj |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 catch | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 night | cc |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 night | nummod |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thing | conj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stop | nsubj |
| 10 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 5 thing | acl:relcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 country | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 country | nummod |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stop | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 know | det |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 done | advcl |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 call | advmod |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 call | nsubj |
| 20 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | ccomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 call | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | boy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | catch | infinitive | boy not said here | ’ = ' | thing and one night obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary thing=Theme | |||
| 3 | stop | present | boy | thing and one night not said here | for one country | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector thing=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | know | infinitive | boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | call | present | ’ = ' | boy | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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