Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 34
Ogbaja was far too frightened to go to the place where the bad men lived to look for his mother, so he went home, feeling very sad.
Who acts: Ogbaja, bad men · What happens: be, go, live, look, feel · To what, where: place
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, bad men), 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 | 5 frightened | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | cop |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 frightened | advmod |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 frightened | advmod |
| 5 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 frightened | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 lived | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 men | det |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 men | amod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 place | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 look | mark |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lived | xcomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 mother | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mother | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 look | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | conj |
| 25 | home | home | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 feeling | punct |
| 27 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 went | advcl |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 sad | advmod |
| 29 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 feeling | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ogbaja | far, frightened property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | Ogbaja not said here | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | live | past | the bad men | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | the bad men not said here | for Ogbaja's mother | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for mother=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | past | Ogbaja | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | feel | gerund | Ogbaja not said here | sad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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