Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 4, sentence 50

Very soon she strayed away into the forest, where she met a fine young bush buck, and, forgetting all about the frog, went off with her young lover.

Who acts: WIFE · What happens: stray away, meet, forget, go off · To what, where: forest, fine young bush buck

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 (WIFE), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 strayed	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 strayed	nsubj
4	strayed	stray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 strayed	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strayed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 met	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 met	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 met	nsubj
12	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strayed	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 buck	det
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 buck	amod
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 buck	amod
16	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 buck	compound
17	buck	buck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 met	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 forgetting	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 forgetting	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 forgetting	punct
21	forgetting	forget	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 met	advcl
22	all	all	ADV	_	25 frog	advmod
23	about	about	ADP	_	25 frog	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 frog	det
25	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 forgetting	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strayed	conj
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 went	compound:prt
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 lover	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 lover	nmod:poss
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lover	amod
32	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 strayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stray away	past	WIFE		the forest	away, soon property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into forest=Destination
2	meet	past	WIFE	a fine young bush buck			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buck=Co-Agent
3	forget	gerund	WIFE not said here			about the frog	tree rules
4	go off	past	WIFE not said here			with WIFE's young lover	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 4, sentence 50

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 4, sentence 50