Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 89
He also said that when he got food he would return, and that if there was no one about outside trying to catch him, he would knock at the door and she could then let him in.
Who acts: AGBOR, one, wife · What happens: say, get, return, be, try, catch · To what, where: food, one, AGBOR · 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 (AGBOR, one, wife), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 got | mark |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 got | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 return | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 return | aux |
| 11 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 food | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 one | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 one | cc |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 one | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 was | mark |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 one | cop |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | conj |
| 20 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 trying | advmod |
| 21 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 20 about | advmod |
| 22 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 one | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 catch | mark |
| 24 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 trying | xcomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 catch | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 knock | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 knock | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 knock | aux |
| 29 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | parataxis |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 door | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 door | det |
| 32 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 knock | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 let | cc |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 let | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 let | aux |
| 36 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 let | advmod |
| 37 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 knock | conj |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 let | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 let | compound:prt |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | AGBOR | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get | past | AGBOR | food | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | return | would | AGBOR | food not said here | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | AGBOR not said here | no one | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | try | gerund | no one not said here | about property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive | no one not said here | AGBOR | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | knock | would | AGBOR | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | ||||
| 8 | let in | could | wife | AGBOR | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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