Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 19
The next day the few remaining people packed up their fish and returned to Okuni, but the tortoise remained behind, as he hoped to get some fish out of Achi and her husband.
Who acts: few remaining people, tortoise · What happens: pack up, return, remain, hope, get · To what, where: fish, Okuni, Achi · 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 (few remaining people, tortoise), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 packed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 people | det |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 6 | remaining | remaining | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 packed | nsubj |
| 8 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 packed | compound:prt |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 fish | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 packed | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 returned | cc |
| 13 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 packed | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Okuni | case |
| 15 | Okuni | Okuni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 returned | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 remained | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 remained | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tortoise | det |
| 19 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 remained | nsubj |
| 20 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 packed | parataxis |
| 21 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 20 remained | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hoped | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 hoped | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 hoped | nsubj |
| 25 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 remained | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 get | mark |
| 27 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 hoped | ccomp |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 fish | det |
| 29 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 get | obj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 Achi | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Achi | case |
| 32 | Achi | Achi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 get | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 husband | cc |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 husband | nmod:poss |
| 35 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Achi | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 packed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack up | participle | the few remaining people | people's fish | day | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | return | past | the few remaining people not said here | Okuni | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to okuni=Result | ||||
| 3 | remain | past | the tortoise | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hope | past | tortoise | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | some fish | Achi and fish's husband | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus |
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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