Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 20

Achi and her husband went fishing that day, and caught a lot of fish between them, which they dried on sticks in the smoke of the fire at night.

Who acts: Achi, people, fire · What happens: go, fish, catch, dry, smoke · To what, where: lot, sticks

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, people, fire), 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	Achi	Achi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 husband	cc
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 husband	nmod:poss
4	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Achi	conj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fishing	fish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 went	xcomp
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fishing	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 caught	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 caught	cc
11	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lot	det
13	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 caught	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 fish	case
15	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lot	nmod
16	between	between	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 caught	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dried	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 dried	obj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dried	nsubj
21	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 caught	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 sticks	case
23	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 dried	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 smoke	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 smoke	det
26	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dried	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 fire	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fire	det
29	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 smoke	nmod
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 night	case
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dried	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Achi and fish's husband					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fish	gerund	Achi and fish's husband not said here			day		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	catch	past		a lot of fish			between people	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme
4	dry	past	people		sticks	night	in the smoke of the fire; which obj	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient which=Result
5	smoke		the fire					nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 20

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 20