Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 34
Oghabi would not believe this at first, but his wife convinced him after much argument that what the ju-ju man had said was true.
Who acts: Oghabi, wife, ju man, much argument · What happens: not believe, convince, say, be · To what, where: this, OGHABI · 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, wife, ju man, much argument), 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 | Oghabi | Oghabi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 believe | advmod |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 believe | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 first | case |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 believe | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 convinced | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 convinced | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 convinced | nsubj |
| 12 | convinced | convince | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 convinced | obj |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 argument | case |
| 15 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 argument | amod |
| 16 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 convinced | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 true | mark |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 true | nsubj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 20 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ju | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 ju | punct |
| 22 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 man | compound |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | aux |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 true | cop |
| 27 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 argument | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | would | Oghabi | this | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | convince | past | OGHABI's wife | OGHABI | after much argument | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | the ju man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | much argument | true property | 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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