Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 27
Okpa then went home with his wife, but the next morning he went to enquire after his friend, and having stayed a short time he went home again.
Who acts: Okpa · What happens: go, enquire, have, stay · To what, where: short time
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 (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 | Okpa | Okpa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 wife | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 morning | det |
| 11 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 morning | amod |
| 12 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 enquire | mark |
| 16 | enquire | enquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | xcomp |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 friend | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 friend | nmod:poss |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 enquire | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stayed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 stayed | cc |
| 22 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 stayed | nsubj |
| 23 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 time | det |
| 25 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 time | amod |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 went | nsubj |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 time | acl:relcl |
| 29 | home | home | ADV | _ | 28 went | advmod |
| 30 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 went | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Okpa | then | with OKPA's wife; home property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with wife=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | go | past | OKPA | morning | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | enquire speech: other | to-infinitive | OKPA not said here | after OKPA's friend | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | stay | past | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go | past | OKPA | a short time not said here | again | home property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=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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