Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 79
III.--THE STORY OF IGIRI AND HER HUSBAND INKANG, WHO BROUGHT UP A MUSHROOM BABY BOY, AND WHAT BECAME OF HIM.
Who acts: HUSBAND · What happens: bring up · To what, where: MUSHROOM, III
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 (HUSBAND), 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 | III | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 III | punct |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 STORY | punct |
| 4 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 STORY | det |
| 5 | STORY | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 III | appos |
| 6 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 7 IGIRI | case |
| 7 | IGIRI | IGIRI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 STORY | nmod |
| 8 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 HUSBAND | cc |
| 9 | HER | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 HUSBAND | nmod:poss |
| 10 | HUSBAND | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 IGIRI | conj |
| 11 | INKANG | INKANG | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 HUSBAND | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 BROUGHT | punct |
| 13 | WHO | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 BROUGHT | nsubj |
| 14 | BROUGHT | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 HUSBAND | acl:relcl |
| 15 | UP | up | ADP | _ | 14 BROUGHT | compound:prt |
| 16 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 MUSHROOM | det |
| 17 | MUSHROOM | mushroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 BROUGHT | obj |
| 18 | BABY | BABY | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 BOY | compound |
| 19 | BOY | BOY | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 MUSHROOM | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 WHAT | punct |
| 21 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 WHAT | cc |
| 22 | WHAT | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 BROUGHT | parataxis |
| 23 | BECAME | BECAME | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 WHAT | nsubj |
| 24 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 25 HIM | case |
| 25 | HIM | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 BECAME | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 III | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring up | past | E.D's HUSBAND | a MUSHROOM | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mushroom=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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