Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 52
The young men at once dived in and searched everywhere, but could not find any trace of Ode.
What happens: dive in, search, not find · To what, where: young men, trace
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dived | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 6 dived | mark |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 dived | advmod |
| 6 | dived | dive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 dived | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 searched | cc |
| 9 | searched | search | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dived | conj |
| 10 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 searched | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 find | cc |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 find | advmod |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 dived | parataxis |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 trace | det |
| 17 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Ode | case |
| 19 | Ode | Ode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 trace | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dive in | participle · passive | the young men | once property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | search | participle | everywhere property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not find | could | any trace of Ode | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trace=Topic |
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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