Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, sentence 6
Oga ’Ngigor had also been a good wrestler, singer and dancer, until he caught a bad sickness which covered his whole body with sores.
Who acts: Oga, bad sickness · What happens: have, be, catch, cover · To what, where: good wrestler, bad sickness, whole body
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, bad sickness), 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 | Oga | Oga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oga | punct |
| 3 | Ngigor | Ngigor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Oga | flat |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 wrestler | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 wrestler | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wrestler | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wrestler | amod |
| 9 | wrestler | wrestler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 singer | punct |
| 11 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wrestler | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dancer | cc |
| 13 | dancer | dancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wrestler | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 caught | punct |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 caught | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 caught | nsubj |
| 17 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sickness | det |
| 19 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sickness | amod |
| 20 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 caught | obj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 covered | nsubj |
| 22 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sickness | acl:relcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 body | nmod:poss |
| 24 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 body | amod |
| 25 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 covered | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 sores | case |
| 27 | sores | sore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 covered | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Oga | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | participle | a good wrestler and singer and dancer | singer conj; dancer conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | catch | past | Oga | a bad sickness | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sickness=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cover | past | a bad sickness | Oga's whole body | with sores | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Destination with sore=Theme |
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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