Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 30
And thus it became the custom for the women to go out in the dry season with their fishing-baskets to catch the cat-fish.
Who acts: lot · What happens: become, go out, catch · To what, where: custom, cat fish
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 (lot), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 became | cc |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 became | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 custom | det |
| 6 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 women | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 women | det |
| 9 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 became | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 became | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 season | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 season | det |
| 15 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 season | amod |
| 16 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 baskets | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 baskets | nmod:poss |
| 19 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 baskets | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 fishing | punct |
| 21 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 go | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 catch | mark |
| 23 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fish | det |
| 25 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fish | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 cat | punct |
| 27 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 catch | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | lot | the custom | for the women; thus property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | go out | to-infinitive | lot not said here | season | with people's fishing baskets; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with basket=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | lot not said here | the cat fish | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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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