Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 3
He gave them plenty of food and good cloths, and they grew into strong young men.
Who acts: Chief, wives · What happens: give, grow · To what, where: plenty, wives
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, wives), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 food | case |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plenty | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cloths | cc |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cloths | amod |
| 9 | cloths | cloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 food | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 grew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grew | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 grew | nsubj |
| 13 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gave | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 men | case |
| 15 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 grew | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Chief | plenty of food and good cloths | wives = wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient plenty=Theme | |||
| 2 | grow | past | wives = wife | into strong young men result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into man=Result |
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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