Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 38
While she was getting the food ready Oghabi went out and made some tombo, and when he returned he divided the tombo into two calabashes, one large and one small.
Who acts: wife, OGHABI · What happens: get, go out, make, return, divide · To what, where: food, tombo, two calabashes
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 (wife, OGHABI), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 getting | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 getting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 getting | aux |
| 4 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 went | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 food | det |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 getting | obj |
| 7 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Oghabi | amod |
| 8 | Oghabi | Oghabi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 getting | xcomp |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 tombo | det |
| 14 | tombo | tombo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 divided | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 divided | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 returned | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 returned | nsubj |
| 19 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 divided | advcl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 divided | nsubj |
| 21 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tombo | det |
| 23 | tombo | tombo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 divided | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 calabashes | case |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 calabashes | nummod |
| 26 | calabashes | calabash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 divided | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 large | punct |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 large | nummod |
| 29 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 calabashes | amod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 small | cc |
| 31 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 small | nummod |
| 32 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 large | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · progressive | wife | the food | ready Oghabi xcomp | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | go out | past | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | past | some tombo | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tombo=Product | |||||
| 4 | return | past | OGHABI | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | divide | past | OGHABI | the tombo | two calabashes | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tombo=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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