Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 13
But Achi refused, and said she had taken a lot of trouble to come all the way from Okuni and she would not go back without some fish.
Who acts: Achi, wife · What happens: refuse, say, take, come, not go back · To what, where: lot, way, Okuni · 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 (Achi, wife), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 refused | cc |
| 2 | Achi | Achi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 refused | nsubj |
| 3 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 refused | conj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 taken | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | aux |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lot | det |
| 11 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 trouble | case |
| 13 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lot | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 taken | advcl |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 way | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Okuni | case |
| 20 | Okuni | Okuni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 way | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 go | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 go | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 go | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 go | advmod |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 taken | conj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 go | advmod |
| 27 | without | without | ADP | _ | 29 fish | case |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 fish | det |
| 29 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 go | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | Achi | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Achi not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | past · perfect | wife | a lot of trouble | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | wife not said here | all way | Okuni | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | |||
| 5 | not go back | would | wife | without some fish | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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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