Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 13
There she remained undiscovered for three days, and then Oga went to her father and said, “If you will give me a good present, I will show you my mother alive.”
Who acts: Oga, you · What happens: remain, go, say, give, show · To what, where: good present, Oga, mother, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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, you), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 remained | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | undiscovered | undiscovered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 remained | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 days | nummod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remained | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 went | advmod |
| 11 | Oga | Oga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remained | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 father | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
| 20 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 give | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 give | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 give | aux |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 give | iobj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 present | det |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 present | amod |
| 27 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 give | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 show | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 show | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 show | aux |
| 31 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 give | advcl |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 show | iobj |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 mother | nmod:poss |
| 34 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 show | obj |
| 35 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 show | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remained | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | Oga | there | day | undiscovered property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | go | past | Oga | then | to Oga's father | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Oga not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | a good present | Oga | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient present=Theme | |||
| 5 | show in a quote | future | Oga | my mother | you | alive property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient mother=Topic |
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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