Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 50
Oghabi was very glad at what he saw, and the boy noticed that Oghabi did not cry, so he went and reported everything to the chief.
Who acts: Oghabi, boy · What happens: be, see, notice, not cry, go, report · To what, where: everything, chief · 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, boy), 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 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 glad | advmod |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 what | case |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 glad | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 noticed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 noticed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 noticed | nsubj |
| 13 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 cry | mark |
| 15 | Oghabi | Oghabi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 cry | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cry | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 cry | advmod |
| 18 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 noticed | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | parataxis |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 reported | cc |
| 24 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 went | conj |
| 25 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 24 reported | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 chief | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 chief | det |
| 28 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reported | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Oghabi | what obl; glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | OGHABI | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | notice | past | the boy | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not cry speech: express | past · do-support | Oghabi | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go | past | OGHABI | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | report | past | OGHABI not said here | everything | the chief | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Topic to chief=Recipient |
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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