Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 94

She then ran on and passed several more wooden drums, each one bigger than the last; they all told her to return, but she was obstinate, and still ran on until at last she came to a clearing in the bush where there was an enormous wooden drum held up by forked sticks and resting on the ground.

Who acts: mother, IBANANG · What happens: run on, pass, tell, return, be, come · To what, where: several wooden drums, mother, last, enormous wooden drum, ground · 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, IBANANG), 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	3 ran	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 ran	advmod
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 passed	cc
6	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
7	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 drums	amod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 wooden	advmod
9	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 drums	amod
10	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 passed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bigger	punct
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bigger	nsubj
14	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 ran	conj
15	than	than	ADP	_	17 last	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 last	det
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bigger	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	nsubj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 they	det
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	parataxis
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 return	mark
24	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 told	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 obstinate	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 obstinate	cc
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 obstinate	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 obstinate	cop
29	obstinate	obstinate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 told	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 ran	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 ran	cc
32	still	still	ADV	_	33 ran	advmod
33	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 obstinate	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	33 ran	compound:prt
35	until	until	SCONJ	_	39 came	mark
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 last	case
37	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 came	obl
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 came	nsubj
39	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 ran	advcl
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 clearing	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 clearing	det
42	clearing	clearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 came	obl
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 bush	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 bush	det
45	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 clearing	nmod
46	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	48 was	advmod
47	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	48 was	expl
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 bush	acl:relcl
49	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 drum	det
50	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 drum	amod
51	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 drum	amod
52	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 was	nsubj
53	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 drum	acl
54	up	up	ADP	_	53 held	compound:prt
55	by	by	ADP	_	57 sticks	case
56	forked	fork	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 sticks	amod
57	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 held	obl
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 resting	cc
59	resting	rest	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	53 held	conj
60	on	on	ADP	_	62 ground	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 ground	det
62	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 resting	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run on	past	mother				then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	past	mother not said here	several wooden drums					vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme drum=Trajectory
3	tell speech: assert	past	IBANANG		mother				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	return not said to happen	to-infinitive	IBANANG not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	mother					obstinate property	tree rules
6	run on	past	mother not said here				still		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	come	past	mother			last		to a clearing in the bush	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to clearing=Initial_Location
8	hold up	participle		a enormous wooden drum not said here				by forked sticks	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
9	fork	participle							vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
10	rest	gerund				the ground			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=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 94

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 94