Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 23
Edim then ran out of the house shouting, and told the people of the town what he had seen, and that Agbor was not in the house.
Who acts: Edim, house, Agbor · What happens: run, shout, tell, see, not be · To what, where: house, people, town · 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 (Edim, house, Agbor), 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 | Edim | Edim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ran | advmod |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 8 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 house | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 told | iobj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 town | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 town | det |
| 16 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 people | nmod |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 seen | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 town | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 house | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 house | cc |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 house | mark |
| 24 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 house | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 house | cop |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 house | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 house | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 house | det |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Edim | the house | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out house=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | shout speech: express | gerund | the house not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Edim not said here | the people of the town | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | Edim | the town | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | not is | past | Agbor | the house | 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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