Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 2
Agbor was a hunter and a trapper, and it was his custom to set traps all along the road to the boundary where the Okuni farms joined up with Insofan.
Who acts: Agbor, trapper · What happens: be, set, join up · To what, where: hunter, custom, traps, Okuni farms
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 (Agbor, trapper), 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 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hunter | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hunter | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hunter | det |
| 4 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 trapper | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 trapper | det |
| 7 | trapper | trapper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hunter | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 custom | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 custom | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 custom | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 custom | cop |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 custom | nmod:poss |
| 13 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hunter | appos |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 set | mark |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 custom | acl |
| 16 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 set | obj |
| 17 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 road | advmod |
| 18 | along | along | ADP | _ | 20 road | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 road | det |
| 20 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 boundary | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 boundary | det |
| 23 | boundary | boundary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obl |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 boundary | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 farms | det |
| 26 | Okuni | Okuni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 farms | compound |
| 27 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 where | nsubj |
| 28 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 farms | acl |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 joined | compound:prt |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 Insofan | case |
| 31 | Insofan | Insofan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 joined | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hunter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Agbor | a hunter and a trapper | a trapper conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | trapper | Agbor's custom | Agbor nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | set | to-infinitive | Agbor not said here | traps | to the boundary; the road obj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent trap=Theme road=Destination | |||
| 4 | join up | participle | the Okuni farms not said here | with Insofan | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with insofan=Co-Patient |
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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