Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 20
The next morning at daylight Edim the slave went to wake his master as usual to go out and visit the traps, but he found that the hunter was absent.
Who acts: slave, Agbor, hunter · What happens: go, wake, go out, visit, find, be · To what, where: master, traps · 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 (slave, Agbor, hunter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Edim | case |
| 5 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Edim | compound |
| 6 | Edim | Edim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 slave | det |
| 8 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 wake | mark |
| 11 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | xcomp |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 master | nmod:poss |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wake | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 usual | case |
| 15 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wake | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wake | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 visit | cc |
| 20 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 traps | det |
| 22 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 visit | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 found | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 found | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 found | nsubj |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 absent | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hunter | det |
| 29 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 absent | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 absent | cop |
| 31 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 found | ccomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the slave | morning | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wake | to-infinitive | the slave not said here | Agbor's master | as usual | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent master=Patient | |||
| 3 | go out | to-infinitive | the slave not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | visit | infinitive | the slave not said here | the traps | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | find | past | Agbor | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | past | the hunter | absent property | tree rules |
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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