Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 89
Shortly afterwards the eleven o’clock bell rang, and the boys went home for food.
Who acts: o’clock bell, boys · What happens: ring, go
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 (o’clock bell, boys), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 7 rang | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 7 rang | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bell | det |
| 4 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 o’clock | nummod |
| 5 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bell | compound |
| 6 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rang | nsubj |
| 7 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boys | det |
| 11 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rang | conj |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 went | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 food | case |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | past | the o’clock bell | afterwards, shortly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the boys | for food; home property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for food=Beneficiary |
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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