Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 100
They then set off together for the farm, but they went by a different path so as to come in at the back of the frog.
Who acts: people · What happens: set off, go, come in · To what, where: back
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 set | advmod |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 farm | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 farm | det |
| 8 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 path | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 path | det |
| 15 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 path | amod |
| 16 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 come | mark |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 come | mark |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 went | parataxis |
| 21 | in | in | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 back | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 back | det |
| 24 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 frog | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 frog | det |
| 27 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 back | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | past | people | then | for the farm; together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | people | by a different path | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by path=Location | ||||
| 3 | come in | to-infinitive | the back of the frog | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at back=Location |
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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