Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 23
She then called for her husband to come and help her, but he could not hear.
Who acts: fish, Achi · What happens: call, come, help, not hear · To what, where: fish · 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 (fish, Achi), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 called | advmod |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 husband | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 husband | nmod:poss |
| 6 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 come | mark |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 called | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 help | cc |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 come | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 help | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hear | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 hear | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hear | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 hear | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 hear | advmod |
| 17 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 called | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | fish | then | for fish's husband | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for husband=Recipient | |||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | fish not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | help | infinitive | fish not said here | fish | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | not hear | could | Achi | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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