Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 61
He stopped pulling and looked round everywhere, but as he could not see anybody, he went on pulling again at the tie-tie.
Who acts: chief · What happens: stop, pull, look round, not see, go · To what, where: anybody
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 (chief), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 stopped | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 looked | cc |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stopped | conj |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 looked | advmod |
| 7 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 looked | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 see | advmod |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 went | advcl |
| 15 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 see | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stopped | conj |
| 19 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 20 pulling | mark |
| 20 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 went | advcl |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 pulling | advmod |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 tie | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tie | det |
| 24 | tie | tie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tie | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 tie | punct |
| 26 | tie | tie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pulling | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | chief | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | pull | gerund | chief not said here | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look round | past | chief not said here | everywhere, round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not see | could | chief | anybody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anybody=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | go | past | chief | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | pull | gerund | chief not said here | again | at the tie tie | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at tie=Theme |
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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