Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, sentence 36
The chief then greeted Oga and persuaded him to stay on from day to day, and told him that a play was being brought from Bendega.
Who acts: chief, Oga · What happens: greet, persuade, stay on, tell, bring · To what, where: Oga, play, Bendega · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (chief, 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 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 greeted | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 greeted | advmod |
| 4 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Oga | Oga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 greeted | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 persuaded | cc |
| 7 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 greeted | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 persuaded | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 stay | mark |
| 10 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 persuaded | xcomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 stay | compound:prt |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stay | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stay | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 told | cc |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 greeted | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 told | iobj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 brought | mark |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 play | det |
| 22 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 brought | aux:pass |
| 24 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 brought | aux:pass |
| 25 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 told | ccomp |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 Bendega | case |
| 27 | Bendega | Bendega | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 brought | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 greeted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | past | the chief | Oga | then | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oga=Theme | |||
| 2 | persuade | past | the chief not said here | Oga | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 3 | stay on | to-infinitive | Oga not said here | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | the chief not said here | Oga | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | bring | past · passive | a play | Bendega | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from bendega=Initial_Location |
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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