Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 91
After she had gone a little distance she was out of breath, so she stopped to rest for a time.
Who acts: mother · What happens: go, be, stop, rest · To what, where: little distance, breath
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), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 gone | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 distance | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 distance | amod |
| 7 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | obj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 breath | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 breath | cop |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 breath | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 breath | case |
| 12 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 distance | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stopped | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 stopped | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stopped | nsubj |
| 16 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 rest | mark |
| 18 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 stopped | xcomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rest | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | mother | a little distance | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | mother | a little distance not said here | breath | tree rules | |||
| 3 | stop | past | mother | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | rest | to-infinitive | mother not said here | time | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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