Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 52
But the cripple eat very little, and did not drink any of the tombo, as he was suspicious of the people.
Who acts: cripple · What happens: eat, not drink, be · To what, where: little, any
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 (cripple), 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 eat | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cripple | det |
| 3 | cripple | cripple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 little | advmod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eat | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drink | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drink | cc |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 drink | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 drink | advmod |
| 11 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 eat | conj |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 drink | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tombo | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tombo | det |
| 15 | tombo | tombo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 any | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 suspicious | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 suspicious | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 suspicious | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 suspicious | cop |
| 20 | suspicious | suspicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 drink | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 people | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 people | det |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 suspicious | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | the cripple | little | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not drink | past · do-support | the cripple not said here | any of the tombo | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | cripple | of the people; suspicious property | tree rules |
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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