Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 109
The next two days Inkang Ezen spent in borrowing native razors from her friends and sharpening them.
Who acts: next two days · What happens: spend, borrow, sharpen · To what, where: native razors, razors
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 (next two days), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spent | nsubj |
| 5 | Inkang | Inkang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 spent | nsubj |
| 6 | Ezen | Ezen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Inkang | flat |
| 7 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 borrowing | mark |
| 9 | borrowing | borrow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 spent | advcl |
| 10 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 razors | amod |
| 11 | razors | razor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 borrowing | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 friends | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friends | nmod:poss |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 borrowing | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sharpening | cc |
| 16 | sharpening | sharpen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 borrowing | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sharpening | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | the next two days | Inkang nsubj | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | borrow | gerund | the next two days not said here | native razors | from Inkang's friends | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent razor=Theme from friend=Source | |||
| 3 | sharpen | gerund | the next two days not said here | razors = razor | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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