Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, sentence 16
Now when Abang got into Oga’s skin he was unable to walk, and was obliged to sit down.
Who acts: Abang, Oga · What happens: get, be, walk, oblige, sit down · To what, where: skin
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abang, Oga), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 3 | Abang | Abang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 skin | case |
| 6 | Oga | Oga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 skin | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Oga | case |
| 8 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 unable | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 unable | cop |
| 11 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 walk | mark |
| 13 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 unable | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 obliged | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 obliged | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 obliged | aux:pass |
| 17 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 got | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 sit | mark |
| 19 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 obliged | xcomp |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 sit | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Abang | Oga's skin | now | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into skin=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | Oga | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | walk | to-infinitive | Oga not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | oblige | past · passive | Abang not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result | |||||
| 5 | sit down | to-infinitive | Abang not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «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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