Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xviii.--how the River Came Into Existence; Or, Why a Crab Has No Head., sentence 25
This stream became larger and larger until it grew into a big river.
Who acts: stream · What happens: become, grow · To what, where: big river
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xviii.--how the River Came Into Existence; Or, Why a Crab Has No Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stream), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 stream | det |
| 2 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 became | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 larger | cc |
| 6 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 larger | conj |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 9 grew | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | advcl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 river | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 river | det |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 river | amod |
| 13 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | this stream | large property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | stream | into a big river result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into river=Result |
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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