Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 48
Oghabi said, “run back home at once and tell your father that I will come directly I have been home, and will bring some medicine which will make them vomit and they will then get well.”
Who acts: Oghabi, medicine, calabashes · What happens: say, run back, tell, come, be, bring · To what, where: father, medicine, calabashes · 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, medicine, calabashes), 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 | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 run | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 run | punct |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 run | advmod |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 run | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 run | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tell | cc |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 run | conj |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tell | iobj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 come | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 come | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 tell | ccomp |
| 18 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 17 come | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 home | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 home | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 home | cop |
| 22 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 come | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bring | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bring | cc |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 bring | aux |
| 26 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 medicine | det |
| 28 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bring | obj |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 make | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 make | aux |
| 31 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 medicine | acl:relcl |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 make | obj |
| 33 | vomit | vomit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 make | xcomp |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 get | cc |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 get | nsubj |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 get | aux |
| 37 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 get | advmod |
| 38 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 bring | conj |
| 39 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 get | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 bring | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Oghabi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | run back in a quote | infinitive | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | your father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | future | Oghabi | directly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present · perfect | Oghabi | home property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | bring in a quote | future | some medicine | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme | |||||
| 7 | make in a quote | future | some medicine | calabashes = calabash | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | vomit in a quote | infinitive | calabashes = calabash not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | get in a quote | future | calabashes = calabash | then | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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