Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 13
She therefore decided to take the first-born child Aro back with her, but Agbor she left on the ground underneath a tree.
Who acts: Awu, Agbor · What happens: decide, take, bear, leave · To what, where: born child, ground
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, E. Dayrell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Awu, Agbor), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 decided | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 decided | advmod |
| 3 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 decided | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 child | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 born | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 first | punct |
| 9 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 child | amod |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 11 | Aro | Aro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 child | appos |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 take | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 take | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 left | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 left | cc |
| 17 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 left | nsubj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 left | nsubj |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 decided | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 ground | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ground | det |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | obl |
| 23 | underneath | underneath | ADP | _ | 25 tree | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 tree | det |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | Awu | therefore property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | Awu not said here | the born child | with Awu | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination | |||
| 3 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | leave | past | Agbor | the ground | underneath a tree; Awu nsubj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=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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