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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 11

When they arrived at the river, which was close to where the ju-ju man lived, they found that most of the people had already dried their fish and were returning home.

Who acts: slaves, river, ju man, most · What happens: arrive, be, live, find, dry, return · To what, where: river, fish · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slaves, river, ju man, most), 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

advmodnsubjadvclcasedetoblpunctnsubjcopamodmarkadvmoddetcompoundpunctcompoundnsubjadvclpunctnsubjmarknsubjcasedetnmodauxadvmodccompnmod:possobjccauxconjadvmodpunctrootWhenADVtheyPRONarrivedVERBatADPtheDETriverNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONwasAUXcloseADJtoSCONJwhereADVtheDETjuNOUN-PUNCTjuNOUNmanNOUNlivedVERB,PUNCTtheyPRONfoundVERBthatSCONJmostADJofADPtheDETpeopleNOUNhadAUXalreadyADVdriedVERBtheirPRONfishNOUNandCCONJwereAUXreturningVERBhomeADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 arrivedadvmod
2theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs3 arrivednsubj
3arrivedarriveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 foundadvcl
4atatADP_6 rivercase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 riverdet
6riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing3 arrivedobl
7,,PUNCT_10 closepunct
8whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel10 closensubj
9wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 closecop
10closecloseADJDegree=Pos6 riveramod
11totoSCONJ_18 livedmark
12wherewhereADVPronType=Rel18 livedadvmod
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 mandet
14jujuNOUNNumber=Sing16 jucompound
15--PUNCT_14 jupunct
16jujuNOUNNumber=Sing17 mancompound
17manmanNOUNNumber=Sing18 livednsubj
18livedliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 closeadvcl
19,,PUNCT_3 arrivedpunct
20theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs21 foundnsubj
21foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
22thatthatSCONJ_29 driedmark
23mostmostADJDegree=Sup29 driednsubj
24ofofADP_26 peoplecase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 peopledet
26peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur23 mostnmod
27hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 driedaux
28alreadyalreadyADV_29 driedadvmod
29drieddryVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass21 foundccomp
30theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 fishnmod:poss
31fishfishNOUNNumber=Sing29 driedobj
32andandCCONJ_34 returningcc
33werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin34 returningaux
34returningreturnVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part29 driedconj
35homehomeADV_34 returningadvmod
36..PUNCT_21 foundpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1arrivepastslaves = slavethe rivervn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2ispastthe riverclose propertytree rules
3livepastthe ju manvn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4findpastslaves = slavevn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5drypast · perfectmost of the peopleslaves's fishvn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fish=Result
6returnpast · progressivemost of the people not said herehome propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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