Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 29
When they had eaten it they found it so good that when they returned home they at once sent their wives out with baskets to catch some of the fish.
Who acts: people · What happens: eat, find, return, send out, catch · To what, where: lot, wives, some
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 eaten | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eaten | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eaten | aux |
| 4 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 found | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eaten | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | obj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 good | advmod |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 found | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 sent | mark |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 returned | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 returned | nsubj |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sent | advcl |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 returned | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sent | nsubj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 once | case |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 sent | obl |
| 19 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 good | advcl |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wives | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sent | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 sent | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 baskets | case |
| 24 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sent | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 catch | mark |
| 26 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sent | advcl |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 catch | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 fish | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 fish | det |
| 30 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 some | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect | people | lot | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | find | past | people | lot | good property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 3 | return | past | people | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | send out | past | people | people's wives | with baskets; out property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme | |||
| 5 | catch | to-infinitive | people not said here | some of the fish | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=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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