Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 41
Having put the salt into the pot she went into the next hole where she had left her children, to count them.
Who acts: crab · What happens: put, go, leave, count · To what, where: salt, pot, next hole, children
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 | Having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 put | aux |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 salt | det |
| 4 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 pot | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pot | det |
| 7 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pot | acl:relcl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 hole | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hole | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hole | amod |
| 13 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 left | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 left | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 left | aux |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 hole | acl:relcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 children | nmod:poss |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 left | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 count | punct |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 count | mark |
| 22 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 count | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | gerund | the salt | the pot | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent salt=Goal | ||||
| 2 | go | past | crab | the pot not said here | the next hole | tree rules | |||
| 3 | leave | past · perfect | crab | crab's children | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||||
| 4 | count | to-infinitive | children = child | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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