Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 79
They only had one child, Ibanang Okpong by name, and both the father and mother were very fond of her.
Who acts: people, father · What happens: have, be · To what, where: one child
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 (people, father), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 child | nummod |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ibanang | punct |
| 7 | Ibanang | Ibanang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 child | appos |
| 8 | Okpong | Okpong | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ibanang | flat |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 name | case |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Ibanang | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fond | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fond | cc |
| 13 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 father | det |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 father | det |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fond | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mother | cc |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 father | conj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fond | cop |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 fond | advmod |
| 20 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 had | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fond | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | people | one child | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | both father and mother | of mother; fond 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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