Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong., sentence 36
On his return he found that the parents of the girl had taken his camwood and rubbed their daughter all over with it.
Who acts: farmer, parents · What happens: find, take, rub, return · To what, where: return, camwood, daughter · 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, parents), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 return | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 return | nmod:poss |
| 3 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 taken | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 parents | det |
| 8 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 taken | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 girl | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 parents | nmod |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 taken | aux |
| 13 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 found | ccomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 camwood | nmod:poss |
| 15 | camwood | camwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taken | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rubbed | cc |
| 17 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 taken | conj |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rubbed | obj |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 over | advmod |
| 21 | over | over | ADV | _ | 17 rubbed | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rubbed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | farmer | farmer's return | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | the parents of the girl | farmer's camwood | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camwood=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rub | past | the parents of the girl not said here | parents's daughter | with camwood; over property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent daughter=Destination with it=Theme | |||
| 4 | return | farmer | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=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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