Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 11

The day after, by constant crying, she induced her mother to come out as far as her waist, and, after a few more days of persistent weeping, she got her mother out altogether.

Who acts: Oga · What happens: cry, induce, come out, get out · To what, where: mother

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oga), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 induced	obl:unmarked
3	after	after	ADV	_	2 day	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 crying	punct
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 crying	mark
6	constant	constant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 crying	amod
7	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 day	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 induced	nsubj
10	induced	induce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 induced	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 come	mark
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 induced	advcl
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 far	advmod
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 come	advmod
18	as	as	ADP	_	20 waist	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 waist	nmod:poss
20	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 far	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 got	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 got	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 and	punct
24	after	after	ADP	_	28 days	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 days	det
26	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 days	amod
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 days	amod
28	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 got	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 weeping	case
30	persistent	persistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 weeping	amod
31	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 days	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 days	punct
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 got	nsubj
34	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 induced	conj
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 mother	nmod:poss
36	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 got	obj
37	out	out	ADV	_	34 got	advmod
38	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	34 got	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 induced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	gerund	Oga not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	induce	past	Oga	Oga's mother	day		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient
3	come out	to-infinitive	Oga not said here			far, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	get out	past	Oga	Oga's mother	day	altogether, out 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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 11