Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 54
As Oga Erim was unable to walk, the head slave ordered four slaves to carry their master to his farm.
Who acts: Oga, head slave · What happens: be, walk, order, carry · To what, where: four slaves, master, farm
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 (Oga, head slave), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 unable | mark |
| 2 | Oga | Oga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 unable | nsubj |
| 3 | Erim | Erim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Oga | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 unable | cop |
| 5 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ordered | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 walk | mark |
| 7 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 unable | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 unable | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 slave | det |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slave | compound |
| 11 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ordered | nsubj |
| 12 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 slaves | nummod |
| 14 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ordered | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 carry | mark |
| 16 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ordered | advcl |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 master | nmod:poss |
| 18 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carry | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 farm | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 farm | nmod:poss |
| 21 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carry | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Oga | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk | to-infinitive | Oga not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | order | participle | the head slave | four slaves | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry | to-infinitive | the head slave not said here | slaves's master | Oga's farm | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent master=Theme to farm=Destination |
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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