Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 39
This was done, but instead of getting better, chief Erim died in less than a month, and his son Oga Erim inherited his father’s property.
Who acts: Erim, son · What happens: do, get, die, inherit · To what, where: This, property
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 (Erim, son), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | aux:pass |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 better | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 better | cc |
| 6 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 8 getting | mark |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 instead | fixed |
| 8 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 better | advcl |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 done | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 chief | punct |
| 11 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 better | conj |
| 12 | Erim | Erim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 died | nsubj |
| 13 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 chief | ccomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 month | case |
| 15 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 18 month | advmod |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 less | fixed |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 month | det |
| 18 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 died | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 inherited | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 inherited | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 son | nmod:poss |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 inherited | nsubj |
| 23 | Oga | Oga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 son | appos |
| 24 | Erim | Erim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Oga | flat |
| 25 | inherited | inherit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 died | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 father | nmod:poss |
| 27 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 property | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 father | case |
| 29 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 inherited | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | die | past | Erim | month | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | inherit | past | Chief's son | Chief's father's property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=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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