Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 16
Awo was much annoyed with her husband for beating the child, so she packed up all her things, and said she was going to return to her parents and would take her children with her.
Who acts: Awo · What happens: be, beat, pack up, say, go, return · To what, where: child, children · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Awo), 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 | Awo | Awo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 annoyed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 annoyed | cop |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 annoyed | advmod |
| 4 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 husband | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 annoyed | obl |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 beating | mark |
| 9 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 annoyed | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beating | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 packed | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 packed | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 packed | nsubj |
| 15 | packed | pack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 annoyed | parataxis |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 packed | compound:prt |
| 17 | all | all | ADP | _ | 19 things | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 things | nmod:poss |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 packed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 packed | conj |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 going | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 going | aux |
| 25 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 said | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 return | mark |
| 27 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 going | xcomp |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 parents | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 parents | nmod:poss |
| 30 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 return | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 take | cc |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 take | aux |
| 33 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 going | conj |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 children | nmod:poss |
| 35 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 take | obj |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 her | case |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 take | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 annoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Awo | with Awo's husband; annoyed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beat | gerund | Awo not said here | the child | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location child=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pack up | past | Awo | all Awo's things | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Awo not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go | past · progressive | Awo | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | return | to-infinitive | Awo not said here | to Awo's parents result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to parent=Result | ||||
| 7 | take | would | Awo not said here | Awo's children | with Awo | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination |
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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