Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 131
Everyone praised Inkang Ezen very much for the way she had delivered them, and asked her to show them her house, so that they would know where to find her in the future.
Who acts: Everyone, Inkang, people · What happens: praise, deliver, ask, show, know, find · To what, where: Inkang, people, house, future · 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 (Everyone, 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 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 praised | nsubj |
| 2 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Inkang | Inkang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 praised | obj |
| 4 | Ezen | Ezen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Inkang | flat |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 2 praised | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 praised | obl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 delivered | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 delivered | aux |
| 12 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 way | acl:relcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 delivered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 praised | parataxis |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | iobj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 show | mark |
| 19 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asked | xcomp |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 show | obj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 house | nmod:poss |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 show | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 know | punct |
| 24 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 28 know | mark |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 so | fixed |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 know | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 know | aux |
| 28 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 show | conj |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 find | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 find | mark |
| 31 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 know | ccomp |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 find | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 future | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 future | det |
| 35 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 find | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 praised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | past | Everyone | Inkang | for the way | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent inkang=Theme for way=Attribute | |||
| 2 | deliver | past · perfect | Inkang | people | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Inkang | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | show not said to happen | to-infinitive | people | Inkang's house obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient house=Topic | ||||
| 5 | know | would | people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | find | to-infinitive | house | the future | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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