Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 42
When the ju-ju man had gone some little distance, Achi picked up her baby, and ran off as fast as she could go.
Who acts: ju man, Achi, child · What happens: go, pick up, run off · To what, where: little distance, baby
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, Achi, child), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 8 gone | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 3 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ju | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 ju | punct |
| 5 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | compound |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gone | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gone | aux |
| 8 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 picked | advcl |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 distance | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 distance | amod |
| 11 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gone | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gone | punct |
| 13 | Achi | Achi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 picked | nsubj |
| 14 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 picked | compound:prt |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 baby | nmod:poss |
| 17 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 picked | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ran | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ran | cc |
| 20 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 picked | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 ran | compound:prt |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 fast | advmod |
| 23 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 ran | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 go | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 go | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 go | aux |
| 27 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 fast | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | the ju man | some little distance | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pick up | past | Achi | child's baby | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Topic | ||||
| 3 | run off | past | Achi not said here | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | could | child | 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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