Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 49
She was very glad to see her husband again, and asked him about the war party he was running away from.
Who acts: wife, hare · What happens: be, see, ask, run away · To what, where: husband, war party
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 (wife, hare), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 glad | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 glad | advmod |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 glad | xcomp |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 husband | nmod:poss |
| 8 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 see | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 asked | cc |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | iobj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 party | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 party | det |
| 16 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 party | compound |
| 17 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 running | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 running | aux |
| 20 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 party | acl:relcl |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 running | advmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 away | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wife | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | wife not said here | wife's husband | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | wife not said here | husband | about the war party | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about party=Topic | |||
| 4 | run away | past · progressive | hare | the war party not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme party=Trajectory |
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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