Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 17
He said that by his hunting he hoped to grow richer, as he intended to go from town to town and sell the meat of the animals he killed while Okpa could be looking after the farm.
Who acts: OGHABI, Okpa · What happens: say, hope, grow, intend, go, sell · To what, where: town, meat, animals · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (OGHABI, Okpa), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 hoped | mark |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 hunting | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hunting | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hoped | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hoped | nsubj |
| 8 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 grow | mark |
| 10 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hoped | xcomp |
| 11 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 grow | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 intended | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 intended | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 intended | nsubj |
| 15 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hoped | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 intended | xcomp |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 town | case |
| 19 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 town | case |
| 21 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sell | cc |
| 23 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 go | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 meat | det |
| 25 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sell | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 animals | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 animals | det |
| 28 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 meat | nmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 killed | nsubj |
| 30 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 animals | acl:relcl |
| 31 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 35 looking | mark |
| 32 | Okpa | Okpa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 looking | nsubj |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 looking | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 looking | aux |
| 35 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 killed | advcl |
| 36 | after | after | ADP | _ | 38 farm | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 farm | det |
| 38 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 looking | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | OGHABI | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hope | past | OGHABI | by OGHABI's hunting | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow not said to happen | to-infinitive | OGHABI not said here | rich property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | intend | past | OGHABI | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | OGHABI not said here | town | to town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from town=Initial_Location to town=Destination | |||
| 6 | sell | infinitive | OGHABI not said here | the meat of the animals | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Theme | ||||
| 7 | kill | past | OGHABI | the animals not said here | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | ||||
| 8 | look | could · progressive | Okpa | after the farm | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | hunt | OGHABI | nom hunting «act transitive»: poss=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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