Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 9

At last she conceived, and when she was about eight months gone with child she happened one day to go into the forest to gather firewood to cook her morning food.

Who acts: Awu · What happens: conceive, be, happen, go, gather, cook · To what, where: forest, firewood, morning food

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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 conceived	nsubj
4	conceived	conceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 last	acl:relcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 happened	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 happened	cc
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 gone	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gone	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	cop
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 eight	advmod
11	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 months	nummod
12	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gone	nsubj
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 happened	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 child	case
15	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gone	obl
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 happened	nsubj
17	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 last	conj
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 day	nummod
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 happened	obl:unmarked
20	to	to	PART	_	21 go	mark
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 happened	advcl
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 forest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 forest	det
24	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 gather	mark
26	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	advcl
27	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gather	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 cook	mark
29	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 gather	xcomp
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 food	nmod:poss
31	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 food	compound
32	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cook	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conceive	past	Awu					vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Awu				with child; go property	tree rules
3	happen	past	Awu			day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	to-infinitive	Awu not said here		the forest			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
5	gather	to-infinitive	Awu not said here	firewood				tree rules
6	cook	to-infinitive	Awu not said here	Awu's morning food				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient

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 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, E. Dayrell., sentence 9