Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 102
Ibanang did not know any of the people, but they were those who had disappeared from the surrounding towns for some years.
Who acts: Ibanang · What happens: not know, disappear · To what, where: any, IBANANG, surrounding towns
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 (Ibanang), 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 | Ibanang | Ibanang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 know | advmod |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 know | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 any | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 disappeared | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 disappeared | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 disappeared | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 disappeared | aux:pass |
| 13 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 disappeared | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 disappeared | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 disappeared | aux |
| 16 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 know | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 towns | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 towns | det |
| 19 | surrounding | surrounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 towns | compound |
| 20 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 disappeared | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 years | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 years | det |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 towns | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | Ibanang | any of the people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer any=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | disappear | past · perfect · passive | IBANANG | the surrounding towns for some years | those nsubj:pass; who nsubj | tree rules |
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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