Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong., sentence 32
At last he found one, so he went into the house and asked the woman if she were going to be married, and she said, “Yes.”
Who acts: farmer, woman · What happens: find, go, ask, marry, say · To what, where: one, last, house, woman · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (farmer, woman), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 found | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | parataxis |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 going | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 going | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 going | aux |
| 20 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 asked | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 married | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 married | aux:pass |
| 23 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 going | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 said | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 said | nsubj |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Yes | punct |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Yes | punct |
| 30 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 27 said | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | farmer | one | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent one=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 2 | go | past | farmer | the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | farmer not said here | the woman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | go a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | woman | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | woman not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic |
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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