Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 19
Ogbaja said, “I cannot take you home, as I must go out hunting to get food.
Who acts: Ogbaja · What happens: say, not take, go out, hunt, get · To what, where: you, food · 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 (Ogbaja), 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 | Ogbaja | Ogbaja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 take | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 take | advmod |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 take | obj |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 take | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 take | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 go | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 get | mark |
| 19 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hunting | xcomp |
| 20 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 get | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Ogbaja | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not take in a quote | can | Ogbaja | you | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | |||
| 3 | go out in a quote | must | Ogbaja | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hunt in a quote | gerund | Ogbaja not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | Ogbaja not said here | food | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus |
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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