Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 24
The people then went to the house to look at Awo and her children, and the father and brothers of Awo at once armed themselves and set off into the bush to find Agbor.
Who acts: people, father · What happens: go, look, arm, set off, find · To what, where: house, people, bush, Agbor
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 (people, father), 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 | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | advcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Awo | case |
| 11 | Awo | Awo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 look | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 children | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 children | nmod:poss |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 Awo | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 armed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 armed | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 father | det |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 armed | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 brothers | cc |
| 20 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 father | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Awo | case |
| 22 | Awo | Awo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 brothers | nmod |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 once | case |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 armed | obl |
| 25 | armed | arm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 26 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 armed | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 set | cc |
| 28 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 armed | conj |
| 29 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 set | compound:prt |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 bush | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bush | det |
| 32 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 set | obl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 find | mark |
| 34 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 set | advcl |
| 35 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 find | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the people | the house | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | the people not said here | at Awo and Awo's children | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at awo=Theme | ||||
| 3 | arm | past | the father and brothers of Awo | people | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | set off | infinitive | the father and brothers of Awo not said here | the bush | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bush=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | the father and brothers of Awo not said here | Agbor | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agbor=Topic |
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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