Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 32
She therefore sent him down to the river with a basket, and told him to fill it with water and bring it back to her.
Who acts: ESSAMA · What happens: send down, tell, fill, bring back · To what, where: BROTHER, river, basket, ESSAMA · 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 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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sent | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 basket | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 basket | det |
| 11 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 told | cc |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | iobj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 fill | mark |
| 17 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 told | xcomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fill | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fill | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bring | cc |
| 22 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 fill | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bring | obj |
| 24 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 bring | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bring | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send down | past | ESSAMA | BROTHER | the river | with a basket; therefore property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to river=Destination | ||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | ESSAMA not said here | BROTHER | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fill not said to happen | to-infinitive | ESSAMA not said here | basket | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with water=Instrument | |||
| 4 | bring back | infinitive | ESSAMA not said here | basket | ESSAMA | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Destination |
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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