Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 31
But Agbor said nothing, much to the disappointment of the people, who wished to hear him shout.
Who acts: Agbor, people · What happens: say, wish, hear, shout, disappoint · To what, where: nothing, Agbor, people · 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 (Agbor, people), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 said | cc |
| 2 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 said | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 much | punct |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nothing | amod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 disappointment | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 disappointment | det |
| 9 | disappointment | disappointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 much | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 disappointment | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wished | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 wished | nsubj |
| 15 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 people | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 hear | mark |
| 17 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wished | xcomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hear | obj |
| 19 | shout | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hear | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Agbor | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | the people | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hear not said to happen | to-infinitive | the people not said here | Agbor | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | infinitive | Agbor not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | disappoint | the people | nom disappointment «feeling transitive»: of=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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