Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 84

This went on for some time, until at last Ibanang became very dissatisfied, as she had never been to their farm and wanted to see what it was like very much.

Who acts: This, last Ibanang, wife, home · What happens: go on, become, not be, want, see, be

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 (This, last Ibanang, wife, home), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 became	punct
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 became	mark
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 Ibanang	case
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Ibanang	amod
11	Ibanang	Ibanang	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 became	nsubj
12	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 dissatisfied	advmod
14	dissatisfied	dissatisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 became	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 farm	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 farm	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 farm	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 farm	aux
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 farm	advmod
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 farm	cop
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 farm	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 farm	nmod:poss
23	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 became	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wanted	cc
25	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 became	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 wanted	xcomp
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 see	obj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 much	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 much	cop
31	like	like	ADP	_	32 very	case
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 much	advmod
33	much	much	ADV	_	28 what	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	This	time		vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past	last Ibanang		dissatisfied property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	not is	past · perfect	wife		to IBANANG's farm; IBANANG nmod:poss	tree rules
4	want	past	last Ibanang not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	last Ibanang not said here		what obj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
6	is	past	home		much 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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 84

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 84