Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 40
He then went further away each time until the sixth time, coming back always to look at the child.
Who acts: man · What happens: go, come back, look
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), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | further | further | ADV | _ | 5 away | advmod |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | until | until | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | sixth | sixth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 coming | punct |
| 13 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 coming | advmod |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 coming | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 look | mark |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 coming | advcl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 child | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 child | det |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 look | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | man | then; time | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come back | gerund | man not said here | always property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | man not said here | at the child | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at child=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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