Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 42
When the food was ready Okpa and his wife sat down and eat it and drank the tombo from the small calabash.
Who acts: food, ready Okpa · What happens: be, sit down, eat, drink · To what, where: FOOD, tombo, small calabash
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 (food, ready 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 ready | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 food | det |
| 3 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ready | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | cop |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Okpa | amod |
| 6 | Okpa | Okpa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sat | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wife | cc |
| 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 Okpa | conj |
| 10 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 sat | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 eat | cc |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sat | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 eat | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drank | cc |
| 16 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sat | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tombo | det |
| 18 | tombo | tombo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drank | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 calabash | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 calabash | det |
| 21 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 calabash | amod |
| 22 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drank | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the food | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | ready Okpa and OKPA's wife | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | eat | present | ready Okpa and OKPA's wife not said here | FOOD | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | drink | past | ready Okpa and OKPA's wife not said here | the tombo | the small calabash | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tombo=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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