Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 40
He then got ready and went with his wife to Okpa’s house taking the two calabashes of tombo and the palm oil chop with him.
Who acts: OGHABI · What happens: get, go, take · To what, where: house, 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 got | advmod |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 wife | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 11 | Okpa | Okpa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Okpa | case |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 14 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 went | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 calabashes | det |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 calabashes | nummod |
| 17 | calabashes | calabash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 taking | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 tombo | case |
| 19 | tombo | tombo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 calabashes | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 chop | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 chop | det |
| 22 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 oil | compound |
| 23 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 chop | compound |
| 24 | chop | chop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tombo | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 chop | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | OGHABI | then | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | go | past | OGHABI not said here | Okpa's house | with OGHABI's wife | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | take | gerund | OGHABI not said here | the two calabashes of tombo and the oil chop with OGHABI | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calabash=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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