Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 71
They continued to run until they reached the second water, called “Ogboga Kedegha” (“the water with deep places”).
Who acts: parents · What happens: continue, run, reach, call · To what, where: second water · 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 (parents), 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 continued | nsubj |
| 2 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 run | mark |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 continued | xcomp |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 7 reached | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reached | nsubj |
| 7 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 9 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 water | amod |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 water | acl |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Kedegha | punct |
| 14 | Ogboga | Ogboga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Kedegha | compound |
| 15 | Kedegha | Kedegha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 called | xcomp |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Kedegha | punct |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 water | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 water | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Kedegha | appos |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 places | case |
| 22 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 places | amod |
| 23 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 water | nmod |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 water | punct |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 water | punct |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | parents = parent | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | run | to-infinitive | parents = parent not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reach | past | parents = parent | the second water | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | the second water not said here | Ogboga Kedegha xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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