Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 64
They walked on for some distance, until they arrived at a stream called “Keruba Ketor” (“deep hole, near the town,” a place where women wash their bodies) and then Agbor suggested that they should rest for a while and wash.
Who acts: head, women, Agbor · What happens: walk on, arrive, call, wash, suggest, rest · To what, where: deep hole, stream, bodies · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (head, women, Agbor), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 walked | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 distance | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 distance | det |
| 6 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 arrived | punct |
| 8 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 10 arrived | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 arrived | nsubj |
| 10 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | parataxis |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 stream | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stream | det |
| 13 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arrived | obl |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 stream | acl |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Keruba | punct |
| 16 | Keruba | Keruba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 called | xcomp |
| 17 | Ketor | Ketor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Keruba | flat |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Keruba | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 hole | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 hole | punct |
| 21 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hole | amod |
| 22 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arrived | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 town | punct |
| 24 | near | near | ADP | _ | 26 town | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 town | det |
| 26 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hole | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 place | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 place | punct |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 place | det |
| 30 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hole | appos |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 wash | advmod |
| 32 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 wash | nsubj |
| 33 | wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 place | acl:relcl |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 35 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 wash | obj |
| 36 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 hole | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 suggested | cc |
| 38 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 suggested | advmod |
| 39 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 suggested | nsubj |
| 40 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 arrived | conj |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 rest | mark |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 rest | nsubj |
| 43 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 rest | aux |
| 44 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 suggested | ccomp |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 while | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 while | det |
| 47 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 rest | obl |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 wash | cc |
| 49 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 rest | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk on | past | head | for some distance | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | head | deep hole and the town | a stream | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | call | participle | a stream not said here | Keruba xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | wash | present | women | head's bodies | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | ||||
| 5 | suggest speech: suggest | past | Agbor | then | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | rest | should | head | while | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | wash | infinitive | head not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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