Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 15
Chief Nyip was delighted to get his favourite wife back again, and they lived together as they had done before.
Who acts: Chief, wives · What happens: be, get, live together, do · To what, where: favourite wife
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 (Chief, wives), 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 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 2 | Nyip | Nyip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chief | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 delighted | advcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wife | amod |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 get | obj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 again | advmod |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lived | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lived | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | conj |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 lived | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 done | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 done | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 done | aux |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 lived | advcl |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 20 done | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Chief | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Chief not said here | Chief's favourite wife | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | live together | past | wives = wife | together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | wives = wife | before property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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