Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 27

When Awu, the mother, heard about the fire, she knew at once that Agbor must be her son whom she had deserted and left to die in the forest.

Who acts: Awu, Agbor · What happens: hear, know, be, desert, leave, die · To what, where: son · 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 (Awu, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 heard	advmod
2	Awu	Awu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 heard	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mother	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mother	det
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Awu	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Awu	punct
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 knew	advcl
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 knew	nsubj
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 once	case
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 knew	obl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 son	mark
17	Agbor	Agbor	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 son	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 son	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 son	cop
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 son	nmod:poss
21	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knew	ccomp
22	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 deserted	obj
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 deserted	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 deserted	aux
25	deserted	desert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 son	acl:relcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 left	cc
27	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 deserted	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 die	mark
29	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 left	xcomp
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 forest	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 forest	det
32	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 die	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Awu		about the fire	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about fire=Stimulus
2	know	past	Awu			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	must	Agbor	Awu's son	Awu nmod:poss	tree rules
4	desert	past · perfect	Awu	Awu's son		vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme whom=Source
5	leave	participle	Awu not said here			tree rules
6	die	to-infinitive	Awu not said here		in the forest	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in forest=Attribute

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 27

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 27