Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 65
He also borrowed a large number of rods to provide a big feast at the funeral and to give his friends and the slaves he brought with him plenty to eat and drink.
Who acts: father, slaves · What happens: borrow, provide, give, bring, eat, drink · To what, where: large number, big feast, funeral, friends, plenty
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 (father, slaves), 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 borrowed | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 borrowed | advmod |
| 3 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 number | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 number | amod |
| 6 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 borrowed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rods | case |
| 8 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 number | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 provide | mark |
| 10 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 borrowed | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 feast | det |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feast | amod |
| 13 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 provide | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 funeral | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 funeral | det |
| 16 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 provide | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 give | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 give | mark |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 provide | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 friends | nmod:poss |
| 21 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 give | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 brought | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 slaves | det |
| 24 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 brought | nsubj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 brought | nsubj |
| 26 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 borrowed | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 brought | obl |
| 29 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 brought | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 eat | mark |
| 31 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 plenty | acl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 drink | cc |
| 33 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 eat | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 borrowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | borrow | past | father | a large number of rods | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme | ||||
| 2 | provide | to-infinitive | father not said here | a big feast | the funeral | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition feast=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | father not said here | father's friends | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bring | past | the slaves | plenty | with father | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent plenty=Theme | |||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | the slaves not said here | plenty not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | drink | infinitive | the slaves not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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