Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 38
He did so, but very soon returned to see that Achi and her child was safe.
Who acts: man, Achi · What happens: do, return, see, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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, 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 | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 returned | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 returned | cc |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 soon | advmod |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 returned | advmod |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 did | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 returned | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 safe | mark |
| 12 | Achi | Achi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 safe | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 child | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 child | nmod:poss |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Achi | conj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 safe | cop |
| 17 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 see | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | return | participle | man not said here | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Achi and fish's child | safe property | tree rules |
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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