Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 92
While she was resting, a small wooden drum came up and spoke to her.
Who acts: mother, small wooden drum · What happens: rest, come up, speak · To what, where: mother · 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 (mother, small wooden drum), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 resting | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 resting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 resting | aux |
| 4 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 came | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 resting | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 drum | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 drum | amod |
| 8 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 drum | amod |
| 9 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | up | up | ADV | _ | 10 came | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 spoke | cc |
| 13 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 spoke | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past · progressive | mother | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come up | past | a small wooden drum | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | a small wooden drum not said here | mother | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent |
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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