Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 101
She slid down his throat and fell into a big compound where there were many people singing and dancing.
Who acts: way, many people · What happens: slide down, fall, sing · To what, where: throat, big compound
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, many people), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 slid | nsubj |
| 2 | slid | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 slid | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 throat | nmod:poss |
| 5 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slid | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fell | cc |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 slid | conj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 compound | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 compound | det |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 compound | amod |
| 11 | compound | compound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obl |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 were | advmod |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 were | expl |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 compound | acl:relcl |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 people | amod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 were | nsubj |
| 17 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 people | acl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dancing | cc |
| 19 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 singing | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 slid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slide down | past | way | sound's throat | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throat=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | way not said here | into a big compound result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into compound=Result | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | many people not said here | dancing conj | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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