Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 20
One day Awu sent her daughter Aro to get her some fire, and Aro, after wandering about, eventually found herself at the hawk’s house, where she saw Agbor sitting down.
Who acts: Awu, Aro, Agbor · What happens: send, get, wonder, find, see, sit down · To what, where: daughter, fire, Aro, house, Agbor
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, Aro, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Awu | Awu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | iobj |
| 7 | Aro | Aro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | appos |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fire | nmod:poss |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 fire | det |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wandering | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wandering | cc |
| 15 | Aro | Aro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 wandering | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wandering | punct |
| 17 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 18 wandering | mark |
| 18 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sent | advcl |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 wandering | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 21 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 22 found | advmod |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wandering | parataxis |
| 23 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 found | obj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hawk | det |
| 26 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 house | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 hawk | case |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 saw | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 saw | advmod |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 saw | nsubj |
| 32 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 house | acl:relcl |
| 33 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 saw | obj |
| 34 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 saw | xcomp |
| 35 | down | down | ADV | _ | 34 sitting | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Awu | Awu's daughter | day | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Awu not said here | Awu's fire | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | Aro | about property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | find | past | Aro | the hawk's house | eventually property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at house=Asset | |||
| 5 | see | past | Aro | Agbor | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sit down | gerund | Agbor not said here | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | fire | Awu | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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