Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 90
During the next two nights, Agbor went out as soon as it was dark and got as much food as he could into the house and then fastened himself securely in.
Who acts: Agbor, food · What happens: go out, be, get, fasten · To what, where: much food, AGBOR
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, food), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 5 nights | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 nights | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nights | amod |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 nights | nummod |
| 5 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 nights | punct |
| 7 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 soon | advmod |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 went | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 dark | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dark | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dark | cop |
| 15 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 soon | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 got | cc |
| 17 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 food | amod |
| 20 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 got | obj |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 could | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 could | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 got | advcl |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 house | det |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 could | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fastened | cc |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 fastened | advmod |
| 29 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 30 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 fastened | obj |
| 31 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 29 fastened | advmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADV | _ | 29 fastened | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | Agbor | night | out, soon property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | past | food | dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | past | Agbor not said here | much food | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | fasten | past | Agbor not said here | AGBOR | then | securely property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
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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