Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 97
Inkang’s curiosity was immediately aroused, so he went to his wife and helped her to place the basket carefully on the ground.
Who acts: husband · What happens: arouse, go, help · To what, where: curiosity, wife, ground
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 | Inkang | Inkang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 curiosity | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Inkang | case |
| 3 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 aroused | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 aroused | aux:pass |
| 5 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 6 aroused | advmod |
| 6 | aroused | arouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 aroused | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 wife | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 helped | cc |
| 15 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 helped | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 place | mark |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 helped | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 basket | det |
| 20 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 helped | obj |
| 21 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 15 helped | advmod |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 ground | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ground | det |
| 24 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 helped | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 aroused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arouse | past · passive | Inkang's curiosity | immediately property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | past | husband | to husband's wife | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wife=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | help | past | husband not said here | wife | the ground | place advcl; the basket obj; carefully property | tree rules |
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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