Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 92
When she reached the house, she was so pleased at having got the baby, that she asked Inkang to help her down with the basket.
Who acts: woman · What happens: reach, be, have, get, ask, help down · To what, where: house, baby, Inkang, woman
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 (woman), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pleased | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 pleased | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pleased | cop |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 pleased | advmod |
| 10 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 13 got | mark |
| 12 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 got | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pleased | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 baby | det |
| 15 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 asked | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 asked | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 asked | nsubj |
| 19 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | conj |
| 20 | Inkang | Inkang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | iobj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 help | mark |
| 22 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 asked | xcomp |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 help | obj |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 help | compound:prt |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 basket | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 basket | det |
| 27 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 help | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | woman | the house | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | woman | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | get | past | the baby | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer baby=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | woman | Inkang | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent inkang=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | help down not said to happen | to-infinitive | woman not said here | woman | with the basket | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary with basket=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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