Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 112
He offered Inkang Ezen some kola, as he had done to her daughter, but she refused to take it.
Who acts: cripple, Inkang · What happens: offer, do, refuse, not take · To what, where: kola, Inkang
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 (cripple, Inkang), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 offered | nsubj |
| 2 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Inkang | Inkang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 offered | iobj |
| 4 | Ezen | Ezen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Inkang | flat |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 kola | det |
| 6 | kola | kola | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 offered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 done | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 done | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 done | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 offered | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 daughter | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 done | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 refused | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 refused | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 refused | nsubj |
| 18 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 offered | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 take | mark |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 refused | xcomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 take | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | cripple | some kola | Inkang | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent inkang=Goal kola=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | cripple | to Inkang's daughter | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | refuse | past | Inkang | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not take | to-infinitive | Inkang not said here | kola | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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