Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 31
At last she thought of the porcupine, who was well known throughout the country as a clever and resourceful person, and went to him and told her story.
Who acts: Awu · What happens: think, know, go, tell · To what, where: last, porcupine, Agbor, story · 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 porcupine | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 porcupine | det |
| 7 | porcupine | porcupine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 known | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 known | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 known | aux:pass |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 known | advmod |
| 12 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 porcupine | acl:relcl |
| 13 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 known | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 person | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 person | det |
| 18 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 person | amod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 resourceful | cc |
| 20 | resourceful | resourceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 clever | conj |
| 21 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 known | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 told | cc |
| 28 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 went | conj |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 story | nmod:poss |
| 30 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 told | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Awu | last | of the porcupine | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | know | past · passive | the porcupine | throughout the country | as a clever person; well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as person=Attribute | |||
| 3 | go | past | Agbor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Awu's story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
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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