Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 12
The chief then begged his wife to go back with the other people to the town as he was afraid of the ju-ju man.
Who acts: chief · What happens: beg, go back, be · To what, where: wife
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 (chief), 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 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 begged | advmod |
| 4 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 begged | xcomp |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 people | amod |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 go | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 town | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 town | det |
| 16 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 afraid | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 afraid | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 afraid | cop |
| 20 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 go | advcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 man | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 man | det |
| 23 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ju | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 ju | punct |
| 25 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 man | compound |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 afraid | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the chief | Chief's wife | then | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go back not said to happen | to-infinitive | the chief not said here | with the other people; to the town result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Chief | of the ju man; afraid property | tree rules |
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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