Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 25
He then took the child up and washed it, and placed it on some soft dry leaves on the ground.
Who acts: Achi · What happens: take up, wash, place · To what, where: child, water, soft dry leaves
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 washed | cc |
| 8 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 washed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 placed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 placed | cc |
| 12 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 placed | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 leaves | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 leaves | det |
| 16 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 leaves | amod |
| 17 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 leaves | amod |
| 18 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 placed | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 ground | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ground | det |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 placed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | Achi | the child | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination | |||
| 2 | wash | past | Achi not said here | water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | place | past | Achi not said here | water | some soft dry leaves | on the ground | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on leaf=Destination |
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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