Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 105
When Ibanang’s mother returned from the farm her husband told her that Ibanang had escaped from the house and had gone to the farm.
Who acts: mother, husband, Ibanang · What happens: return, tell, escape, go · To what, where: farm, mother, house · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mother, husband, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 returned | advmod |
| 2 | Ibanang | Ibanang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Ibanang | case |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 told | advcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 farm | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 farm | det |
| 8 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 husband | nmod:poss |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | nsubj |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 escaped | mark |
| 14 | Ibanang | Ibanang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 escaped | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 escaped | aux |
| 16 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 told | ccomp |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 escaped | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gone | cc |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 gone | aux |
| 22 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 escaped | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 farm | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 farm | det |
| 25 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gone | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Ibanang's mother | the farm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from farm=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | mother's husband | mother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | escape | past · perfect | Ibanang | the house | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | go | past · perfect | Ibanang not said here | the farm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farm=Initial_Location |
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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