Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 8

Awu had men friends in every town she visited, but she never stayed long with any of them, being what is called a “walking woman.”

Who acts: Awu · What happens: have, visit, not stay, be, call, walk · To what, where: men friends, town, walking woman · 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	Awu	Awu	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 friends	compound
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 town	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 visited	nsubj
9	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 town	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stayed	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 stayed	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stayed	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 stayed	advmod
14	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 stayed	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 any	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 stayed	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 any	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 what	punct
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 what	cop
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 stayed	parataxis
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 called	aux:pass
24	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 what	acl:relcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 woman	det
26	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 walking	punct
27	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 woman	amod
28	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 called	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Awu	men friends	every town		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient
2	visit	past	Awu	every town not said here			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Co-Agent
3	not stay	past	Awu			with any of friends; long property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with any=Location
4	is a	gerund					tree rules
5	call speech: assert	present · passive		a walking woman			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»
6	walk in a quote	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 8

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Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 8