Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 80
Eba then told his father, that he wished to return to the farm as he had left something behind which he wanted to get.
Who acts: Eba · What happens: tell, wish, return, leave, want, get · To what, where: father, something · 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 (Eba), 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 | Eba | Eba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 told | advmod |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wished | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 wished | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wished | nsubj |
| 9 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 return | mark |
| 11 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wished | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 farm | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 farm | det |
| 14 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 return | obl |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 left | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 left | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 left | aux |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 return | advcl |
| 19 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 left | obj |
| 20 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 wanted | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wanted | nsubj |
| 23 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 something | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 get | mark |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wanted | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Eba | Eba's father | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | |||
| 2 | wish | past | Eba | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | Eba not said here | to the farm result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to farm=Result | ||||
| 4 | leave | past · perfect | Eba | something | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | ||||
| 5 | want | past | Eba | which obl | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | Eba not said here | 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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