Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 74
As soon as they arrived, the whole of the townspeople came out with presents of various articles and gave them to Ode.
Who acts: people, whole · What happens: arrive, come out, give · To what, where: people
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 (people, whole), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 arrived | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 arrived | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 whole | det |
| 8 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 came | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 townspeople | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 townspeople | det |
| 11 | townspeople | townspeople | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whole | obl |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 presents | case |
| 15 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 articles | case |
| 17 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 articles | amod |
| 18 | articles | article | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 presents | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gave | cc |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gave | iobj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Ode | case |
| 23 | Ode | Ode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | people | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | the whole of the townspeople | with presents of various articles; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the whole of the townspeople not said here | people | to Ode | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to ode=Recipient |
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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