Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 42
I saved the boy’s life and have brought him up and fed him.
Who acts: I · What happens: save, bring up, feed · To what, where: life, boy
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 saved | nsubj |
| 2 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 life | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 boy | case |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saved | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brought | cc |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 brought | aux |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 saved | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 brought | compound:prt |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fed | cc |
| 13 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saved | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past | I | the boy's life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring up | present · perfect | I not said here | boy | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | feed | past | I not said here | boy | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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