Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 6
The slave always went with his master into the bush, and helped him with his trap-setting and carried the heavy loads.
Who acts: slave · What happens: go, help, carry · To what, where: bush, slave, heavy loads
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), 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 slave | det |
| 2 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 master | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 master | nmod:poss |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 bush | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bush | det |
| 10 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 helped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 helped | cc |
| 13 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 helped | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 setting | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 setting | nmod:poss |
| 17 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 setting | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 trap | punct |
| 19 | setting | setting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 helped | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 carried | cc |
| 21 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 helped | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 loads | det |
| 23 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 loads | amod |
| 24 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 carried | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the slave | the bush | with slave's master; always property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bush=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | help | past | slave | with slave's trap setting | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary with setting=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | the heavy loads | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme |
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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