Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 119
Inkang Ezen told them that Ibanang was her daughter, who had lost her way in trying to find their farm.
Who acts: Inkang, Ibanang, daughter · What happens: tell, be, lose, try, find · To what, where: people, daughter, way, farm · 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, Ibanang, daughter), 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 | Inkang | Inkang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | Ezen | Ezen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Inkang | flat |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 daughter | mark |
| 6 | Ibanang | Ibanang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 daughter | cop |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lost | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lost | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lost | aux |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 daughter | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lost | obj |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 trying | mark |
| 17 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 lost | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 find | mark |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 trying | xcomp |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 farm | nmod:poss |
| 21 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Inkang | people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Ibanang | Inkang's daughter | Inkang nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lose | past · perfect | Inkang's daughter | Inkang's way | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | try | gerund | Inkang's daughter not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | Inkang's daughter not said here | people's farm | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Topic |
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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