Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 38
Directly he sat down, his mother jumped up and seized him, and said she would not let him go again.
Who acts: Agbor, mother · What happens: sit down, jump up, seize, say, not let, go · To what, where: Agbor · 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 (Agbor, 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 | Directly | directly | ADV | _ | 3 sat | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 jumped | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jumped | nsubj |
| 8 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 jumped | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seized | cc |
| 11 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 jumped | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seized | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 let | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 let | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 let | advmod |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 let | obj |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | xcomp |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Agbor | directly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | jump up | past | Agbor's mother | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | seize | past | Agbor's mother not said here | Agbor | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Agbor not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not let | would | mother | Agbor | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go | infinitive | Agbor not said here | again | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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