Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 36
Very soon afterwards he returned, and commenced to play and sing, and he played so well that the ju-ju man felt compelled to dance.
Who acts: man, ju man · What happens: return, commence, play, sing, feel, compel
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 (man, ju man), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 afterwards | advmod |
| 3 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 5 returned | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 commenced | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 commenced | cc |
| 8 | commenced | commence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 returned | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 play | mark |
| 10 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 commenced | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sing | cc |
| 12 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 play | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 played | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 played | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 played | nsubj |
| 16 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 returned | conj |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 well | advmod |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 played | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 felt | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 21 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ju | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 ju | punct |
| 23 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 man | compound |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 felt | nsubj |
| 25 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 played | advcl |
| 26 | compelled | compel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 felt | xcomp |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 dance | mark |
| 28 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 compelled | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | man | afterwards property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | commence | participle | man not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | play | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | infinitive | man not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | play | past | man | well property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | feel | past | the ju man | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | compel | participle | the ju man not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | |||||
| 8 | dance | to-infinitive | the ju man not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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