Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 18
He lit a fire and boiled some water, with which he washed the child, and the ants very quickly disappeared.
Who acts: HAWK, ants · What happens: light, boil, wash, disappear · To what, where: fire, water, child
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 (HAWK, ants), 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 lit | nsubj |
| 2 | lit | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fire | det |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lit | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 boiled | cc |
| 6 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lit | conj |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boiled | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 washed | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 washed | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 washed | nsubj |
| 13 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 boiled | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 child | det |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 washed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 disappeared | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 disappeared | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ants | det |
| 19 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 disappeared | nsubj |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 quickly | advmod |
| 21 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 19 ants | advmod |
| 22 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lit | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | past | HAWK | a fire | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | ||||
| 2 | boil | participle | HAWK not said here | some water | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wash | past | HAWK | the child | which obl | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent child=Patient with which=Instrument | |||
| 4 | disappear | past | the ants | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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