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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 4, sentence 3

He told his company what had happened, and advised them to go home at once, as he was unable to provide any more food and drink for them.

Who acts: Eyu, keys · What happens: tell, happen, advise, go, be, provide · To what, where: company, keys, more food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eyu, keys), 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

nsubjnmod:possiobjnsubjauxccomppunctccparataxisobjmarkxcompadvmodcaseoblpunctmarknsubjcopconjmarkxcompadvmodamodobjccconjcasenmodpunctrootHePRONtoldVERBhisPRONcompanyNOUNwhatPRONhadAUXhappenedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJadvisedVERBthemPRONtoPARTgoVERBhomeADVatADPonceADV,PUNCTasSCONJhePRONwasAUXunableADJtoPARTprovideVERBanyADVmoreADJfoodNOUNandCCONJdrinkNOUNforADPthemPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 toldnsubj
2toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 companynmod:poss
4companycompanyNOUNNumber=Sing2 toldiobj
5whatwhatPRONPronType=Int7 happenednsubj
6hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 happenedaux
7happenedhappenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part2 toldccomp
8,,PUNCT_10 advisedpunct
9andandCCONJ_10 advisedcc
10advisedadviseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 toldparataxis
11themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs10 advisedobj
12totoPART_13 gomark
13gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf10 advisedxcomp
14homehomeADV_13 goadvmod
15atatADP_16 oncecase
16onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult13 goobl
17,,PUNCT_21 unablepunct
18asasSCONJ_21 unablemark
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 unablensubj
20wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 unablecop
21unableunableADJDegree=Pos10 advisedconj
22totoPART_23 providemark
23provideprovideVERBVerbForm=Inf21 unablexcomp
24anyanyADV_25 moreadvmod
25moremoreADJDegree=Cmp26 foodamod
26foodfoodNOUNNumber=Sing23 provideobj
27andandCCONJ_28 drinkcc
28drinkdrinkNOUNNumber=Sing26 foodconj
29forforADP_30 themcase
30themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs28 drinknmod
31..PUNCT_2 toldpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1tell speech: assertpastEyuEyu's companyvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent company=Recipient clause=Topic
2happenpast · perfectwhat nsubjvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3advise speech: otherpastkeys = keyvn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4go not said to happento-infinitivekeys = key not said herehome propertyvn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location
5ispastEyuunable propertytree rules
6provideto-infinitiveEyu not said heremore food and drink for keysvn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition food=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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