Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong., sentence 39
He went to the chief’s house, and, having had some food, placed his mat on the ground and went to sleep on it.
Who acts: farmer · What happens: go, have, place, sleep · To what, where: house, food, mat, ground
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chief | det |
| 5 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 chief | case |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 having | punct |
| 11 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 had | advcl |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 food | det |
| 14 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 placed | punct |
| 16 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mat | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mat | mat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 ground | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ground | det |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 placed | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 sleep | mark |
| 25 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 went | xcomp |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sleep | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | farmer | the chief's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | have | past | farmer not said here | some food | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 4 | place | past | farmer not said here | farmer's mat | the ground | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent mat=Theme on ground=Destination | |||
| 5 | go | past | farmer not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | sleep | to-infinitive | farmer not said here | mat | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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