Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 35
The ju-ju man agreed that there was such a custom, so the tortoise went off and fetched his drum.
Who acts: ju man, custom, tortoise · What happens: agree, be, go off, fetch · To what, where: drum
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, custom, tortoise), 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 | 6 agreed | nsubj |
| 6 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 was | mark |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 agreed | ccomp |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 custom | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 custom | det |
| 12 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tortoise | det |
| 16 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 agreed | parataxis |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 went | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fetched | cc |
| 20 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 drum | nmod:poss |
| 22 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fetched | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the ju man | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | be | past | such custom | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go off | past | the tortoise | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fetch | past | the tortoise not said here | tortoise's drum | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=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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