Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 26
This movement soon attracted the attention of the cripple, who was lying on his back, and he looked up and saw Nara sitting on the branch.
Who acts: movement, cripple, Nara · What happens: attract, lie, look up, see, sit, attend · To what, where: attention, back, Nara, branch
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 (movement, cripple, Nara), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 movement | det |
| 2 | movement | movement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attracted | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 attracted | advmod |
| 4 | attracted | attract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 attention | det |
| 6 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attracted | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cripple | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cripple | det |
| 9 | cripple | cripple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attention | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lying | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lying | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lying | aux |
| 13 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cripple | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 back | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 back | nmod:poss |
| 16 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lying | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 looked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 looked | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 looked | nsubj |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 attracted | parataxis |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 looked | compound:prt |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 saw | cc |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 looked | conj |
| 24 | Nara | Nara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 saw | obj |
| 25 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 saw | xcomp |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 branch | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 branch | det |
| 28 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sitting | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 attracted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attract | past | this movement | the attention of the cripple | soon property | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient | |||
| 2 | lie | past · progressive | the cripple | movement's back | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location | ||||
| 3 | look up | past | movement | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | see | past | movement not said here | Nara | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sit | gerund | Nara not said here | the branch | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location | ||||
| 6 | attend | the cripple | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=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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