Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 4
She used to walk from one town to another, and attend all the dances and plays, as she was a good singer and dancer.
Who acts: Awu · What happens: use, walk, attend, be · To what, where: one town, dances, good singer
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 used | nsubj |
| 2 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 walk | mark |
| 4 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 used | xcomp |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 town | nummod |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walk | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 another | case |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 walk | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 attend | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 attend | cc |
| 12 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 walk | conj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 dances | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dances | det |
| 15 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 attend | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 plays | cc |
| 17 | plays | play | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dances | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 singer | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 singer | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 singer | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 singer | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 singer | det |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 singer | amod |
| 24 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 attend | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 dancer | cc |
| 26 | dancer | dancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 singer | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | Awu | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | walk | to-infinitive | Awu not said here | one town | to another result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to another=Result | |||
| 3 | attend | infinitive | Awu not said here | all dances and plays | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dance=Goal | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | Awu | a good singer and dancer | dancer conj | tree rules |
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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