Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 95
As the girl had never seen anything like this drum before she went up quite close to it.
Who acts: mother · What happens: not see, go up · To what, where: anything
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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 girl | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seen | obl |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seen | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 seen | advmod |
| 6 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 seen | obj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 drum | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 drum | det |
| 10 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 anything | nmod |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 went | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seen | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 close | advmod |
| 16 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 went | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 close | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · perfect | anything | as the girl; like this drum | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus as girl=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | go up | past | mother | close property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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