Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 22
Okhabi woke up in great fear and yelled for help, he tried to stand up but could not do so, as his leg was down the snake’s throat.
Who acts: Okhabi, leg · What happens: wake up, yell, try, stand up, not do, be · To what, where: great fear
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 (Okhabi, leg), 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 | Okhabi | Okhabi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 woke | nsubj |
| 2 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 woke | compound:prt |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 fear | case |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fear | amod |
| 6 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 woke | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 yelled | cc |
| 8 | yelled | yell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fear | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 help | case |
| 10 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 yelled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tried | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tried | nsubj |
| 13 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 woke | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 stand | mark |
| 15 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tried | xcomp |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 stand | compound:prt |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 do | cc |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 do | advmod |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 stand | conj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 do | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 throat | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 throat | mark |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 leg | nmod:poss |
| 25 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 throat | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 throat | cop |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 31 throat | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 snake | det |
| 29 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 throat | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 snake | case |
| 31 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | Okhabi | great fear | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | yell speech: express | participle | Okhabi not said here | for help | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | try | past | Okhabi | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | stand up not said to happen | to-infinitive | Okhabi not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not do | could | Okhabi not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | past | Okhabi's leg | down the snake's throat; the snake nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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