Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 59
He then went to the house where Oga Erim kept his walking-sticks, brass pans, pots and other expensive articles, and having opened the door, divided these things up and locked the door.
Who acts: Oga · What happens: go, keep, have, open, divide up, lock · To what, where: house, walking sticks, door, things
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), 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 | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 kept | advmod |
| 8 | Oga | Oga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 kept | nsubj |
| 9 | Erim | Erim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Oga | flat |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sticks | nmod:poss |
| 12 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sticks | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 walking | punct |
| 14 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 kept | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pans | punct |
| 16 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pans | compound |
| 17 | pans | pan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sticks | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pots | punct |
| 19 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sticks | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 articles | cc |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 articles | amod |
| 22 | expensive | expensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 articles | amod |
| 23 | articles | article | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sticks | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 opened | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 opened | cc |
| 26 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 opened | nsubj |
| 27 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 door | det |
| 29 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 opened | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 divided | punct |
| 31 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 opened | conj |
| 32 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 33 things | det |
| 33 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 divided | obj |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 divided | compound:prt |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 locked | cc |
| 36 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 divided | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 door | det |
| 38 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 locked | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Oga | the house | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | keep | past | Oga | Oga's walking sticks and brass pans and pots and other expensive articles | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | open | past | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||||
| 5 | divide up | past | this things | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | |||||
| 6 | lock | past | the door | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=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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