Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 107
She then abused her husband as much as she dared for not looking after their child properly, and pulled her hair down and cried all the night.
Who acts: mother · What happens: abuse, dare, not look, pull down, cry · To what, where: husband, hair
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), 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 | 3 abused | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 abused | advmod |
| 3 | abused | abuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 husband | nmod:poss |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 abused | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 abused | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 dared | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dared | nsubj |
| 10 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 much | advcl |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 looking | mark |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 looking | advmod |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 dared | advcl |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 child | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 child | nmod:poss |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looking | obl |
| 17 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 13 looking | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pulled | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pulled | cc |
| 20 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 abused | parataxis |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 hair | nmod:poss |
| 22 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pulled | obj |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 pulled | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 cried | cc |
| 25 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 pulled | conj |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 night | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 night | det |
| 28 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cried | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 abused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abuse | past | mother | mother's husband | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dare | past | mother | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not look | gerund | mother not said here | after farm's child | properly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | pull down | past | mother's hair | down property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | night | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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