Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 8
His father always sent Ogbaja to the chiefs every day with a small piece of meat and one mango for each, and after a time they got to know him quite well.
Who acts: father, mangoes · What happens: send, get, know · To what, where: Ogbaja, chiefs
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 (father, mangoes), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 sent | advmod |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Ogbaja | Ogbaja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 chiefs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chiefs | det |
| 8 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | obl |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 piece | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 piece | det |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 piece | amod |
| 14 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 meat | case |
| 16 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 piece | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 mango | cc |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 mango | nummod |
| 19 | mango | mango | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 piece | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 each | case |
| 21 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 mango | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 got | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 got | cc |
| 24 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 time | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 time | det |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 got | obl |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 got | nsubj |
| 28 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 know | mark |
| 30 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 got | xcomp |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 know | obj |
| 32 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 33 well | advmod |
| 33 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 know | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Ogbaja's father | Ogbaja | the chiefs | day | with a small piece of meat and one mango for each; always property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ogbaja=Theme to chief=Destination | |
| 2 | get | past | mangoes = mango | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | know | to-infinitive | mangoes = mango not said here | Ogbaja | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=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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