Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 4, sentence 34
All the frogs agreed that the plan was a good one, and promised to help their companion to win the race.
Who acts: frogs, plan, companion · What happens: agree, be, promise, help, win · To what, where: good one, companion, race · 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 (frogs, plan, companion), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 frogs | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 frogs | det |
| 3 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 one | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 plan | det |
| 7 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 one | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 one | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | amod |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 promised | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 promised | cc |
| 14 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 help | mark |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 promised | xcomp |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 companion | nmod:poss |
| 18 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 help | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 win | mark |
| 20 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 help | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 race | det |
| 22 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 win | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | all frogs | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the plan | a good one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | all frogs not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | all frogs not said here | companions's companion | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent companion=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | win not said to happen | to-infinitive | companions's companion not said here | the race | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality |
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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