Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 83
The next day the father would stay at home to look after the girl and his wife would go to the farm.
Who acts: father, wife · What happens: stay, look, go · To what, where: home, farm
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, 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stay | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 father | det |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stay | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stay | aux |
| 7 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stay | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 look | mark |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stay | advcl |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 girl | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 go | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 go | aux |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 look | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 farm | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 farm | det |
| 22 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | would | the father | home | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | |||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | the father not said here | after the girl | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | would | father's wife | the farm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farm=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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