Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 45
Achi reached the farm safely, and found her husband, who took her away at once to Abijon, a town about five miles inland from Okuni.
Who acts: Achi, husband · What happens: reach, find, take away · To what, where: farm, child, Abijon · 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 (Achi, husband), 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 | Achi | Achi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 farm | det |
| 4 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obj |
| 5 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 2 reached | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 found | cc |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 husband | nmod:poss |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | ccomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 took | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 once | case |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 took | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Abijon | case |
| 19 | Abijon | Abijon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 town | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 town | det |
| 22 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Abijon | appos |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 five | advmod |
| 24 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 miles | nummod |
| 25 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 inland | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 22 town | advmod |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 Okuni | case |
| 28 | Okuni | Okuni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 town | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Achi | the farm | safely property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent farm=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | past | Achi not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take away | past | child's husband | child | Abijon | who nsubj; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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