Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiii.--of Chief Amaza, His Wife Achi and the Tortoise., sentence 9
Achi was, however, determined to go and bothered her husband so much that at last he consented and they started off together.
Who acts: Achi, woman · What happens: be, go, bother, consent, start off · To what, where: husband, last
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, woman), 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 | 6 determined | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 determined | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 determined | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 determined | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 determined | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bothered | cc |
| 10 | bothered | bother | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 husband | nmod:poss |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bothered | obj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 bothered | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 consented | mark |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 last | case |
| 17 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 consented | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 consented | nsubj |
| 19 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bothered | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 started | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 started | nsubj |
| 22 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 consented | conj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 started | compound:prt |
| 24 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 started | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Achi | determined, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | Achi not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bother | past | Achi not said here | fish's husband | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus husband=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | consent | past | Achi | last | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | start off | past | woman | together property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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