Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 85
Chief Alankor waited for some time for Eba, and as he did not come, sent two of his slaves back to fetch him, and then went on with the rest of his people.
Who acts: Chief, Eba · What happens: wait, not come, send, fetch, go on · To what, where: two slaves, Eba
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 (Chief, 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 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | Alankor | Alankor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chief | flat |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 Eba | case |
| 8 | Eba | Eba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 come | cc |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 come | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 come | advmod |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 waited | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sent | punct |
| 17 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 slaves | nummod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 slaves | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 21 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sent | obj |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 sent | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 fetch | mark |
| 24 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sent | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fetch | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 went | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 went | cc |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 went | advmod |
| 29 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | conj |
| 30 | on | on | ADV | _ | 29 went | advmod |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 rest | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 rest | det |
| 33 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 went | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 people | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 people | nmod:poss |
| 36 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 rest | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | Chief | time | for Eba | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not come | past · do-support | Eba | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | send | past | Chief not said here | Eba's two slaves | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fetch | to-infinitive | Chief not said here | Eba | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go on | past | Chief not said here | then | with the rest of Eba's people | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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