Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 24
The ju-ju man, however, had heard the child cry, and came to Achi at once and assisted her by boiling water for her to wash with.
Who acts: ju man, child · What happens: hear, cry, come, assist, boil, wash · To what, where: child, Achi
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 (ju man, child), 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 | 5 man | det |
| 2 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ju | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 ju | punct |
| 4 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | compound |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 7 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 heard | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 however | punct |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | aux |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 child | det |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obj |
| 13 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 heard | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Achi | case |
| 18 | Achi | Achi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 once | case |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 came | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 assisted | cc |
| 22 | assisted | assist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 came | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 assisted | obj |
| 24 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 25 boiling | mark |
| 25 | boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 water | amod |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 assisted | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 assisted | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 wash | mark |
| 30 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 assisted | advcl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 wash | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect | the ju man | the child | however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | infinitive | the child not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | Achi | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to achi=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | assist | past | child | for fish; boiling water obj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | boil | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | wash | to-infinitive | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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