Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 28
Later in the day Okpa’s wife came to see Oghabi and had a conversation with his wife.
What happens: come, see, have · To what, where: Oghabi, conversation
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: 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 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 came | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 5 | Okpa | Okpa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Okpa | case |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | nmod |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 came | advcl |
| 11 | Oghabi | Oghabi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 conversation | det |
| 15 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 wife | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 conversation | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | day | late property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Oghabi | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oghabi=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | have | past | a conversation | with OKPA's wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conversation=Patient |
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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