Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 31

When Achi heard this she began to cry, and while she was crying her husband came in, but no sooner did he see the ju-ju man than he threw his load of fish on the ground and ran off to the nearest farm as fast as he could go.

Who acts: Achi, head · What happens: hear, begin, cry, come in, see, throw · To what, where: this, husband, ju man, load, ground

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, head), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 heard	advmod
2	Achi	Achi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 heard	obj
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cry	mark
8	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 crying	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 crying	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 crying	aux
14	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 came	advcl
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 husband	nmod:poss
16	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crying	obj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
18	in	in	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 see	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 see	cc
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 sooner	det
22	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 see	advmod
23	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 see	nsubj
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heard	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 man	det
27	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ju	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 ju	punct
29	ju	ju	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 man	compound
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 see	obj
31	than	than	SCONJ	_	33 threw	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 threw	nsubj
33	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 see	advcl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 load	nmod:poss
35	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 threw	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 fish	case
37	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 load	nmod
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 ground	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 ground	det
40	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 threw	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 ran	cc
42	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 threw	conj
43	off	off	ADP	_	42 ran	compound:prt
44	to	to	ADP	_	47 farm	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 farm	det
46	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	47 farm	amod
47	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 ran	obl
48	as	as	ADV	_	49 fast	advmod
49	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 ran	advmod
50	as	as	SCONJ	_	53 go	mark
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 go	nsubj
52	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 go	aux
53	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 fast	advcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Achi	this			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	begin	past	head				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	head not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cry speech: express	past · progressive	head	head's husband			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Topic
5	come in	past	Achi not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	see	past · do-support	Achi	the ju man		soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
7	throw	past	Achi	Achi's load of fish	the ground		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent load=Theme on ground=Destination
8	run off	past	Achi not said here			to the nearest farm result; fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to farm=Result
9	go	could	Achi				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 31

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 31