Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 33
Ode did as his sister told him and took the basket down to the river, but he found that the water ran out of the basket almost as quickly as it went in; he therefore remained at the water-side some time.
Who acts: Ode, sister, BROTHER, water · What happens: do, tell, take down, find, run, go in · To what, where: BROTHER, basket, water side · 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 (Ode, sister, BROTHER, water), 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 | Ode | Ode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 told | mark |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 told | nsubj |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 told | iobj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 told | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 basket | det |
| 11 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 took | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 river | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 river | det |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 found | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 found | nsubj |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 ran | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 water | det |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ran | nsubj |
| 23 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 found | advcl |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 basket | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 basket | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 basket | det |
| 27 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ran | obl |
| 28 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 29 as | advmod |
| 29 | as | as | ADV | _ | 30 quickly | advmod |
| 30 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 23 ran | advmod |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 went | mark |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 went | nsubj |
| 33 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ran | advcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADV | _ | 33 went | advmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 remained | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 remained | nsubj |
| 37 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 38 remained | advmod |
| 38 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 side | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 side | det |
| 41 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 side | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 water | punct |
| 43 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 remained | obl |
| 44 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 time | det |
| 45 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 remained | obl:unmarked |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Ode | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | BROTHER's sister | BROTHER | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | take down | past | BROTHER's sister not said here | the basket | to the river; down property | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | |||
| 4 | find | past | BROTHER | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | run | past | the water | the basket | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out basket=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | go in | past | water | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | remain | past | BROTHER | the water side | time | therefore property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at side=Location |
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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