Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 22
Then he repeated his question, and added, “Do I resemble either your father or your mother?
Who acts: Agbor · What happens: repeat, add, resemble, question · To what, where: question, father · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 repeated | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 repeated | nsubj |
| 3 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 question | nmod:poss |
| 5 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 repeated | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 added | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 added | cc |
| 8 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 repeated | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 resemble | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 resemble | punct |
| 11 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 resemble | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 resemble | nsubj |
| 13 | resemble | resemble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 added | ccomp |
| 14 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 16 father | cc:preconj |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 resemble | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 mother | cc |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 father | conj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past | Agbor | Agbor's question | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | add speech: ask | past | Agbor not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | resemble in a quote | present · do-support | Agbor | your father or your mother | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | question | Agbor | nom question «communication 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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