Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 36
At the same time, the women were sent to bale out the pools in the streams and to catch the fish.
Who acts: women · What happens: send, bale out, catch · To what, where: women, pools, streams, 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 (women), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 women | det |
| 7 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sent | aux:pass |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 bale | mark |
| 11 | bale | bale | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sent | xcomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 bale | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pools | det |
| 14 | pools | pool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bale | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 streams | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 streams | det |
| 17 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bale | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 catch | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 catch | mark |
| 20 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 bale | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fish | det |
| 22 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 catch | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | the women | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bale out | to-infinitive | the women not said here | the pools | the streams | tree rules | |||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | the women not said here | the 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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