Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 47
Chief ’Njum agreed that this was a good plan, and commenced making preparations for the feast.
Who acts: Njum, this · What happens: agree, be, commence, make · To what, where: good plan, preparations · 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 (Njum, this), 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 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Njum | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 1 Chief | case |
| 3 | Njum | Njum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 plan | mark |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 plan | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 plan | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 plan | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 plan | amod |
| 10 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 commenced | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 commenced | cc |
| 13 | commenced | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | conj |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 commenced | xcomp |
| 15 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 making | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 feast | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 feast | det |
| 18 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 making | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Chief's Njum | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | this | a good plan | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | commence | past | Chief's Njum not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | make | gerund | Chief's Njum not said here | preparations | for the feast | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent preparation=Product for feast=Asset |
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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