Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 17
He did not fish himself, but he brought his drum with him and a large bag.
Who acts: Chief · What happens: not fish, bring · To what, where: Chief, drum
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fish | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fish | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 fish | advmod |
| 4 | fish | fish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 fish | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 brought | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | nsubj |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fish | parataxis |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 drum | nmod:poss |
| 11 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bag | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bag | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bag | amod |
| 17 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 him | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fish | past · do-support | Chief | Chief | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | Chief | Chief's drum | with tortoise | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent drum=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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