Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 21

Aro was so taken with Agbor’s good looks that she continued to stare at him without speaking, until at last Agbor said, “Why do you look at me like that?” but Aro did not reply, and picked up some fire, continuing to stare at Agbor.

Who acts: Aro, last Agbor, you · What happens: take, continue, stare, speak, say, look · To what, where: Aro, fire · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Aro, last Agbor, you), 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	Aro	Aro	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 taken	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux:pass
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 taken	advmod
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 looks	case
6	Agbor	Agbor	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 looks	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Agbor	case
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 looks	amod
9	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 taken	obl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 continued	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 continued	nsubj
12	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 stare	mark
14	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 continued	xcomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stare	obl
17	without	without	SCONJ	_	18 speaking	mark
18	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 stare	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
20	until	until	SCONJ	_	24 said	mark
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 last	case
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Agbor	amod
23	Agbor	Agbor	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 continued	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 look	punct
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 look	punct
27	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	30 look	advmod
28	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 look	aux
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 look	nsubj
30	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 me	case
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 look	obl
33	like	like	ADP	_	34 that	case
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 look	obl
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	30 look	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 look	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 reply	cc
38	Aro	Aro	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 reply	nsubj
39	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 reply	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 reply	advmod
41	reply	reply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 continued	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 picked	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 picked	cc
44	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 taken	conj
45	up	up	ADP	_	44 picked	compound:prt
46	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	47 fire	det
47	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 picked	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 continuing	punct
49	continuing	continue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 picked	advcl
50	to	to	PART	_	51 stare	mark
51	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 continuing	xcomp
52	at	at	ADP	_	53 Agbor	case
53	Agbor	Agbor	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 stare	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past · passive		Aro	with Agbor's good looks	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination
2	continue	past	Aro			vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	stare	to-infinitive	Aro not said here		at Agbor	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme
4	speak speech: other	gerund	Aro not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: ask	past	last Agbor			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	look in a quote	present · do-support	you		at last Agbor = agbor; like that	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme
7	not reply speech: assert	past · do-support	Aro			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	pick up	participle		some fire		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Topic
9	continue	gerund				vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	stare	to-infinitive			at Agbor	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at agbor=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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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 21