Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 82
The parents arranged that they would never go to their farm together, so one day Okongo Osim would go to the farm and leave his wife to look after their daughter, as she could help in the cooking and get water from the river.
Who acts: parents, wife · What happens: arrange, not go, go, leave, look, help · To what, where: farm, wife, cooking, water, river
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, wife), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 parents | det |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arranged | nsubj |
| 3 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 go | advmod |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 arranged | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 farm | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 farm | nmod:poss |
| 11 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 day | nummod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | Okongo | Okongo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 day | appos |
| 18 | Osim | Osim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Okongo | flat |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | aux |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 arranged | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 farm | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 farm | det |
| 23 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 leave | cc |
| 25 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 go | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 wife | nmod:poss |
| 27 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 leave | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 look | mark |
| 29 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 leave | advcl |
| 30 | after | after | ADP | _ | 32 daughter | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 32 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 look | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 help | punct |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 help | mark |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 help | nsubj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 help | aux |
| 37 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 look | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 cooking | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 cooking | det |
| 40 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 help | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 get | cc |
| 42 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 help | conj |
| 43 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 get | obj |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 river | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 river | det |
| 46 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 get | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arranged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrange | past | the parents | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not go | would | parents = parent | parents's farm | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farm=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | go | would | the farm | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farm=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | leave | infinitive | Okongo's wife | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | after parents's daughter | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | help | could | wife | the cooking | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | get | infinitive | wife not said here | water | the river | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from river=Source |
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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