Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, sentence 23
The people and chiefs were very glad to see him, and asked him to play and sing for them, which he did.
Who acts: people, Oga · What happens: be, see, ask, play, sing, do · To what, where: Oga
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 (people, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 chiefs | cc |
| 4 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 people | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 glad | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 glad | advmod |
| 7 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 glad | xcomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 see | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 glad | parataxis |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | iobj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 play | mark |
| 16 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sing | cc |
| 18 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 play | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sing | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 did | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 did | obj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 did | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 asked | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the people and chiefs | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the people and chiefs not said here | Oga | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Oga | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | infinitive | for people | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for they=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | do | past | Oga | which obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
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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