Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 80
This time Aictor was saying, “Turn round and look at the little stream as it will be for the last time.”
Who acts: time, name · What happens: say, turn round, look, be · 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 (time, name), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saying | nsubj |
| 3 | Aictor | Aictor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 time | appos |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saying | aux |
| 5 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Turn | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Turn | punct |
| 8 | Turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 saying | ccomp |
| 9 | round | round | ADV | _ | 8 Turn | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 look | cc |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 Turn | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 stream | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stream | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stream | amod |
| 15 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 time | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 time | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 time | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 time | cop |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 time | det |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 time | amod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 look | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Turn | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · progressive | this time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | turn round in a quote | infinitive | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look in a quote | infinitive | at the little stream | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at stream=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | future | name | for the last time | tree rules |
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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