Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 5
This Agbor did, and after a time he managed to buy a slave called Edim.
Who acts: Agbor · What happens: do, manage, buy, call · To what, where: slave · 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), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Agbor | det |
| 2 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 managed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 managed | cc |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 managed | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 managed | nsubj |
| 10 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 buy | mark |
| 12 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 managed | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 slave | det |
| 14 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 buy | obj |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 slave | acl |
| 16 | Edim | Edim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 called | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | this Agbor | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | manage | past | Agbor | time | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | buy | to-infinitive | Agbor not said here | a slave | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | a slave not said here | Edim xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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