Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 22
Achi was quite alone, when suddenly she felt pains, and shortly afterwards the child she was expecting was born.
Who acts: Achi, fish · What happens: be, feel, expect, bear · To what, where: pains, child
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, fish), 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 | 9 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 alone | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 alone | advmod |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 1 Achi | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Achi | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 suddenly | advmod |
| 7 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 9 felt | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 felt | nsubj |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 felt | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 born | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 born | cc |
| 13 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 14 afterwards | advmod |
| 14 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 21 born | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 born | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 expecting | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 expecting | aux |
| 19 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 child | acl:relcl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 born | aux:pass |
| 21 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 felt | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | alone property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | feel | past | Achi | pains | fish nsubj; suddenly property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme | |||
| 3 | expect | past · progressive | fish | the child not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bear | past · passive | the child | afterwards property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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