Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 30
Essama stayed in the fatting-house for several months, until one day several of the girls of her company came to visit her.
Who acts: Essama, one day · What happens: stay, come, visit · To what, where: fatting house, ESSAMA
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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Essama, one day), 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 | Essama | Essama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stayed | nsubj |
| 2 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 5 | fatting | fatting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 fatting | punct |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stayed | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 months | case |
| 9 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 months | amod |
| 10 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stayed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 22 came | mark |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 day | nummod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | nsubj |
| 15 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 day | amod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 girls | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 girls | det |
| 18 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 several | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 company | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 company | nmod:poss |
| 21 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 girls | nmod |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stayed | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 visit | mark |
| 24 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 came | xcomp |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 visit | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | Essama | the fatting house | month | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | one day | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | visit | to-infinitive | one day not said here | ESSAMA | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-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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