Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 69
XX.--HOW IBANANG OKPONG AND HER MOTHER WERE SWALLOWED BY A MAN-EATING DRUM, AND HOW THEY ESCAPED FROM ITS INSIDE.
Who acts: IBANANG · What happens: swallow, eat, escape · To what, where: IBANANG, XX
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 (IBANANG), 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 | XX | xx | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 XX | punct |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 SWALLOWED | punct |
| 4 | HOW | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 SWALLOWED | advmod |
| 5 | IBANANG | IBANANG | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 SWALLOWED | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | OKPONG | OKPONG | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 IBANANG | flat |
| 7 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 MOTHER | cc |
| 8 | HER | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 MOTHER | nmod:poss |
| 9 | MOTHER | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 IBANANG | conj |
| 10 | WERE | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 SWALLOWED | aux:pass |
| 11 | SWALLOWED | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 XX | conj |
| 12 | BY | by | ADP | _ | 17 DRUM | case |
| 13 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 DRUM | det |
| 14 | MAN | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 EATING | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 MAN | punct |
| 16 | EATING | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 DRUM | amod |
| 17 | DRUM | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 SWALLOWED | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ESCAPED | punct |
| 19 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ESCAPED | cc |
| 20 | HOW | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 ESCAPED | advmod |
| 21 | THEY | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ESCAPED | nsubj |
| 22 | ESCAPED | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 SWALLOWED | parataxis |
| 23 | FROM | from | ADP | _ | 24 ITS | case |
| 24 | ITS | its | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ESCAPED | obl |
| 25 | INSIDE | inside | ADV | _ | 22 ESCAPED | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 XX | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | past · passive | IBANANG and E.D's MOTHER | by a EATING DRUM | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | MAN compound | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | escape | past | IBANANG | from DRUM; inside property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from its=Initial_Location |
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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