Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 26
Then Aro ran home to her mother and reported what she had seen, and said what a fine boy Agbor was.
Who acts: Aro · What happens: run, report, see, say, be · To what, where: fine boy · 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), 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 ran | advmod |
| 2 | Aro | Aro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 mother | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 reported | cc |
| 9 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 seen | obj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 reported | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 17 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 20 boy | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 boy | det |
| 19 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 boy | amod |
| 20 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | ccomp |
| 21 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 boy | appos |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 boy | cop |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Aro | then | to Aro's mother result; home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mother=Result | |||
| 2 | report | past | Aro not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | Aro | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Aro not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | what fine boy | Agbor appos | tree rules |
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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