Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 118
She talked to Ibanang for some time, until the people came up and spoke to them.
Who acts: Inkang, people · What happens: talk, come up, speak · To what, where: Ibanang, people · 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 (Inkang, people), 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 talked | nsubj |
| 2 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Ibanang | case |
| 4 | Ibanang | Ibanang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 talked | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 talked | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spoke | cc |
| 15 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 spoke | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | Inkang | Ibanang | time | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to ibanang=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | come up | past | the people | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | the people not said here | people | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-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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