Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 101
Igiri took great care of the child for the next six years, and he grew up a strong boy.
Who acts: Igiri, boy, child · What happens: take, grow up, care · To what, where: great care, strong boy
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Igiri, boy, child), 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 | Igiri | Igiri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 care | amod |
| 4 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 child | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 care | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 years | det |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 years | amod |
| 11 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grew | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 grew | nsubj |
| 16 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 grew | compound:prt |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 boy | det |
| 19 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 boy | amod |
| 20 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grew | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Igiri | great care of the child | year | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||
| 2 | grow up | past | boy | a strong boy | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | care | the child | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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