Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 81
Ibanang, however, did not pay much attention to what her parents said, and, as she was never allowed to go out to the farm, she grew to be very discontented.
Who acts: parents, girl · What happens: not pay, say, not allow, go out, grow, discontent · To what, where: much attention, girl · 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 (parents, girl), 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 | Ibanang | Ibanang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 pay | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ibanang | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 pay | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pay | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 pay | advmod |
| 7 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 attention | amod |
| 9 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pay | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 what | case |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 pay | obl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 parents | nmod:poss |
| 13 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 grew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 grew | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 and | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 allowed | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 allowed | aux:pass |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 allowed | advmod |
| 22 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 grew | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 go | mark |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 allowed | xcomp |
| 25 | out | out | ADV | _ | 24 go | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 farm | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 farm | det |
| 28 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 go | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 allowed | punct |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 grew | nsubj |
| 31 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pay | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 discontented | mark |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 discontented | aux:pass |
| 34 | very | very | ADV | _ | 35 discontented | advmod |
| 35 | discontented | discontent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 grew | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pay | past · do-support | much attention | Ibanang vocative; what obl; however property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | girl's parents | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not allow | past · passive | girl | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | girl not said here | to the farm; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | grow | past | girl | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | discontent | to-infinitive · passive | girl not said here | 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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