Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, sentence 21

He then washed the cloth he had been wearing, and put on his best one, which belonged to Abang, so as to make a good impression on the people.

Who acts: Oga, best one · What happens: wash, wear, put, belong, make · To what, where: cloth, Abang, good impression

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 (Oga, best one), 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 washed	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 washed	advmod
3	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cloth	det
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 washed	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wearing	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wearing	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 wearing	aux
9	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 washed	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 put	cc
12	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 washed	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 one	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 one	nmod:poss
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 one	amod
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 belonged	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 belonged	nsubj
19	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 one	acl:relcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 Abang	case
21	Abang	Abang	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 belonged	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 make	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	26 make	advmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 make	mark
25	to	to	PART	_	26 make	mark
26	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 put	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 impression	det
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 impression	amod
29	impression	impression	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 make	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 people	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 people	det
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 make	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 washed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wash	past	Oga	the cloth		then		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Patient
2	wear	past · perfect · progressive	Oga					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	put	participle	Oga not said here				on Oga's best one	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on one=Destination
4	belong	past	Oga's best one		Abang			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
5	make	to-infinitive	Oga not said here	a good impression			on the people	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset impression=Product

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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, sentence 21