Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 12
This pleased the chiefs so much that they used to give Agbor presents of tombo and yams.
Who acts: chiefs · What happens: use, give · To what, where: Agbor presents
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chiefs), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 pleased | nsubj |
| 2 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chiefs | det |
| 4 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pleased | nsubj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 used | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 used | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 used | nsubj |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pleased | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 give | mark |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 used | xcomp |
| 12 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 presents | compound |
| 13 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 give | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tombo | case |
| 15 | tombo | tombo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 presents | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 yams | cc |
| 17 | yams | yam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tombo | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | chiefs = chief | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | chiefs = chief not said here | Agbor presents of tombo and yams | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=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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