Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 23
The chief thanked him for his dash, and told his small boy to pour out the tombo.
Who acts: chief · What happens: thank, tell, pour out · To what, where: ju, small boy, tombo · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief), 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 | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thanked | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 dash | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dash | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dash | dash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 boy | nmod:poss |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 boy | amod |
| 13 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | iobj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 pour | mark |
| 15 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 told | xcomp |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 pour | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tombo | det |
| 18 | tombo | tombo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pour | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the chief | ju | for Chief's dash | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for dash=Attribute | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the chief not said here | Chief's small boy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pour out not said to happen | to-infinitive | the chief not said here | the tombo | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tombo=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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