Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong., sentence 31
The next day the goat went on into a country where the people did not use camwood as a part of the marriage ceremony, and went from house to house looking for a girl who had just been circumcised and was about to be married.
Who acts: goat, people · What happens: go on, not use, go, look, circumcise, be · To what, where: country, camwood, house, girl
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goat, people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 goat | det |
| 5 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 country | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 country | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 use | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 use | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 use | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 use | advmod |
| 16 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 country | acl:relcl |
| 17 | camwood | camwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 use | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 part | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 part | det |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 use | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 ceremony | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ceremony | det |
| 23 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ceremony | compound |
| 24 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 part | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | parataxis |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 house | case |
| 29 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | obl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 house | case |
| 31 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 house | nmod |
| 32 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 went | advcl |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 girl | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 girl | det |
| 35 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 looking | obl |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 circumcised | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 circumcised | aux |
| 38 | just | just | ADV | _ | 40 circumcised | advmod |
| 39 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 circumcised | aux:pass |
| 40 | circumcised | circumcise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 girl | acl:relcl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 about | cc |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 about | cop |
| 43 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 went | conj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 married | mark |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 married | aux:pass |
| 46 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 about | xcomp |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | the goat | a country | day | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not use | past · do-support | the people | camwood | as a part of the marriage ceremony | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent camwood=Duration as part=Attribute | |||
| 3 | go | past | house to house | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from house=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | look | gerund | for a girl | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for girl=Theme | |||||
| 5 | circumcise | past · perfect · passive | a girl | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | is | past | about property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
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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