Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 35
The mother having paid the porcupine for his advice went away, and did what she had been told to do.
Who acts: mother · What happens: have, pay, go away, do, tell · To what, where: paid porcupine, mother · 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 (mother), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 3 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 mother | acl |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 porcupine | amod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 porcupine | det |
| 6 | porcupine | porcupine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 having | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 advice | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 advice | nmod:poss |
| 9 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 having | obl |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 did | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 did | cc |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 told | obj |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 told | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 told | aux:pass |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 did | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 told | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the mother not said here | the paid porcupine | for porcupine's advice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porcupine=Patient | |||
| 2 | pay | participle | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | go away | past | the mother | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | past | the mother not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | mother | what obj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | mother not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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