Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 30
Awu wanted to get Agbor away from the hawk and keep him for herself, but did not quite see how it could be done.
Who acts: Awu · What happens: want, get, keep, not see, do · To what, where: Agbor, fancy · 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), 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 | Awu | Awu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 get | mark |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | xcomp |
| 5 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 get | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 hawk | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hawk | det |
| 9 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 away | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 keep | cc |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 get | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 keep | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 herself | case |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 keep | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 see | cc |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 see | advmod |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 see | advmod |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | conj |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 done | advmod |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 done | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 done | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 done | aux:pass |
| 25 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 see | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | Awu | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | Awu not said here | Agbor | away property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer agbor=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | Awu not said here | Agbor | for Awu | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | not see | past · do-support | Awu not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | do | could · passive | fancy | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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