Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxix.--why a Python Never Swallows a Tortoise., sentence 8
But in the evening, when the work was done, he gave them tombo to drink, and then told them to go.
Who acts: work · What happens: do, give, drink, tell, go · To what, where: work, tombo, people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxix.--why a Python Never Swallows a Tortoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (work), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 evening | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 evening | det |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 done | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 work | det |
| 8 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 done | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux:pass |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 evening | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 evening | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | tombo | tombo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 drink | mark |
| 17 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tombo | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 told | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 told | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 told | advmod |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gave | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | iobj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 go | mark |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 told | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | the work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | give | past | work | tombo | people | evening | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient tombo=Theme | ||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | work not said here | tombo not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | work not said here | people | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | work not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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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