Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 36
The crab then dragged the Elephantiasis to the stream, where she cut him up and washed him properly.
Who acts: crab · What happens: drag, cut up, wash · To what, where: Elephantiasis, stream
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crab), 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 crab | det |
| 2 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dragged | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 dragged | advmod |
| 4 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Elephantiasis | det |
| 6 | Elephantiasis | elephantiasis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dragged | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 stream | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stream | det |
| 9 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dragged | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cut | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 cut | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cut | nsubj |
| 13 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dragged | parataxis |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cut | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 cut | compound:prt |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 washed | cc |
| 17 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cut | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 washed | obj |
| 19 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 17 washed | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | past | the crab | the Elephantiasis | the stream | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent elephantiasis=Theme to stream=Destination | ||
| 2 | cut up | past | crab | Elephantiasis | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product | ||||
| 3 | wash | past | crab not said here | Elephantiasis | properly property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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