Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 18

But his mother told him that she wanted to get the fruit herself, and commenced gathering the mangoes and eating some of the ripe ones.

Who acts: mother · What happens: tell, want, get, commence, gather, eat · To what, where: man, fruit, mangoes, some · 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 (mother), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 told	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 wanted	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 get	mark
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wanted	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fruit	det
12	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obj
13	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 get	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 commenced	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 commenced	cc
16	commenced	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
17	gathering	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 commenced	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mangoes	det
19	mangoes	mango	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gathering	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 eating	cc
21	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 gathering	conj
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 eating	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 ones	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ones	det
25	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 ones	amod
26	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 some	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	man's mother		man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	want	past	mother				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	mother not said here	the fruit		mother obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fruit=Stimulus
4	commence	past	man's mother not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	gather	gerund	man's mother not said here	the mangoes			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mango=Theme
6	eat	gerund	man's mother not said here	some of the ripe ones			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient

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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 18

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 18