Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 85
So she waited until the day when her mother had gone to the farm and she was left in charge of her father.
Who acts: wife, mother · What happens: wait, go, leave, charge · To what, where: farm, wife, charge, father
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 (wife, mother), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 waited | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | until | until | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | obl |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 gone | mark |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gone | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gone | aux |
| 11 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 waited | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 farm | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 farm | det |
| 14 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gone | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 left | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 left | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 left | aux:pass |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 waited | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 charge | case |
| 20 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 father | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 charge | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | wife | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | wife's mother | the farm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farm=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | leave | past · passive | wife | charge of wife's father | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in charge=Location | ||||
| 4 | charge | wife's father | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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