Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 86

Ibanang then said she was going down to the river to get water to boil the yams in, but, instead of doing as she proposed, she left her water-pot on the ground outside the house, and ran off along the path which she knew her mother always took to go to the farm.

Who acts: Ibanang, wife, water, mother · What happens: say, go down, get, boil in, do, propose · To what, where: water, yams, water pot, ground, path, farm · 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 (Ibanang, wife, water, 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	Ibanang	Ibanang	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 said	ccomp
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 going	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	advcl
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 get	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 boil	mark
15	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 get	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 yams	det
17	yams	yam	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 boil	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	15 boil	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 left	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 left	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 but	punct
22	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 doing	mark
23	of	of	ADP	_	22 instead	fixed
24	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 left	advcl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 proposed	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 proposed	nsubj
27	proposed	propose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 doing	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 doing	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 left	nsubj
30	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 pot	nmod:poss
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pot	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 water	punct
34	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 left	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 ground	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ground	det
37	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 left	obl
38	outside	outside	ADP	_	40 house	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 house	det
40	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ground	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 ran	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 ran	cc
43	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
44	off	off	ADP	_	43 ran	compound:prt
45	along	along	ADP	_	47 path	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 path	det
47	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 ran	obl
48	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 knew	obj
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 knew	nsubj
50	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 path	acl:relcl
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 mother	nmod:poss
52	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 took	nsubj
53	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	54 took	advmod
54	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 knew	ccomp
55	to	to	PART	_	56 go	mark
56	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 took	xcomp
57	to	to	ADP	_	59 farm	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 farm	det
59	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 go	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ibanang			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go down	past · progressive	wife				to the river; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	get	to-infinitive	wife not said here	water				tree rules
4	boil in	to-infinitive	water not said here	the yams				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent yam=Patient
5	do	gerund	wife not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	propose	past	wife					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	leave	past	wife	wife's water pot	the ground outside the house			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pot=Theme on ground=Location
8	run off	past	Ibanang not said here		the path			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along path=Trajectory
9	know	past	wife	the path				tree rules
10	take	past	wife's mother				always property	vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
11	go	to-infinitive	wife's mother not said here		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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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 86