Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 90
She ran on and paid no attention to the cripple, who shouted after her that she ought to go back, as the path did not lead to her farm.
Who acts: mother, cripple, path · What happens: run on, pay, shout, go back, not lead · To what, where: attention
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 (mother, cripple, path), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 ran | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 paid | cc |
| 5 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 attention | det |
| 7 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paid | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 cripple | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cripple | det |
| 10 | cripple | cripple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paid | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shouted | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 shouted | nsubj |
| 13 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cripple | acl:relcl |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 shouted | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 go | nsubj |
| 18 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | aux |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 shouted | advcl |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lead | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 lead | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 path | det |
| 25 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lead | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 lead | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 lead | advmod |
| 28 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 go | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 farm | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 farm | nmod:poss |
| 31 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lead | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run on | past | mother | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pay | past | mother not said here | no attention | to the cripple | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | |||
| 3 | shout speech: express | past | the cripple | after mother | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go back | ought | mother | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | not lead | past · do-support | the path | to mother's farm | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to farm=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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