Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 114
She went on, and met the small drum, who also offered her kola, and tried to persuade her to go back, but she would not listen to him.
Who acts: Inkang, small drum · What happens: go on, meet, offer, try, persuade, go back · To what, where: small drum, kola, Inkang, cripple
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 (Inkang, small drum), 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 | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 met | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 met | cc |
| 6 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 drum | det |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 drum | amod |
| 9 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 offered | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 offered | nsubj |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 offered | advmod |
| 13 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 drum | acl:relcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 kola | nmod:poss |
| 15 | kola | kola | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 offered | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tried | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tried | cc |
| 18 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 persuade | mark |
| 20 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 tried | xcomp |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 persuade | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 persuade | xcomp |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 go | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 listen | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 listen | cc |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 listen | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 listen | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 listen | advmod |
| 30 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 listen | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | Inkang | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | past | Inkang not said here | the small drum | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | offer | past | the small drum | Inkang's kola | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent kola=Theme | ||||
| 4 | try | past | Inkang not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | persuade not said to happen | to-infinitive | Inkang not said here | Inkang | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 6 | go back | to-infinitive | Inkang not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 7 | not listen | would | Inkang | cripple | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=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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