Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 68
When they got to the place Oyonga pulled at the tie-tie, and the voice at once called out, “Who is pulling there?
Who acts: farewells, Oyonga · What happens: get, pull, call out · To what, where: voice, place, tie tie · 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 (farewells, Oyonga), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | Oyonga | Oyonga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 pulled | nsubj |
| 8 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 place | acl:relcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 tie | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tie | det |
| 11 | tie | tie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tie | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 tie | punct |
| 13 | tie | tie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pulled | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 voice | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 voice | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 voice | det |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 18 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 20 called | mark |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 called | advmod |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 voice | acl |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 called | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pulling | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 pulling | punct |
| 24 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 pulling | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 pulling | aux |
| 26 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 got | advcl |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 pulling | advmod |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | farewells = farewell | the voice | to the place result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result | |||
| 2 | pull | past | Oyonga | the place not said here | the tie tie | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at tie=Asset | |||
| 3 | call out speech: ask | participle | the voice not said here | once property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | pull in a quote | present · progressive | there | Who nsubj | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=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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