Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 9
He then began to gather the palm nuts, and to fill up his bag.
Who acts: plenty · What happens: begin, gather, fill up · To what, where: palm nuts, bag
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plenty), 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 | 3 began | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 began | advmod |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 gather | mark |
| 5 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nuts | det |
| 7 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nuts | compound |
| 8 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gather | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fill | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fill | cc |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 fill | mark |
| 12 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 fill | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bag | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fill | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | plenty | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | gather | to-infinitive | plenty not said here | the palm nuts | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fill up | to-infinitive | plenty's bag | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bag=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/16/9/