Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 22
She then called her father to come, but when he saw his dead wife’s head, he was very angry with Nagor, and told her to go and bury it again in the grave.
Who acts: Nagor, father · What happens: call, come, see, be, tell, go · To what, where: father, head, Nagor, grave · 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 (Nagor, father), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 called | advmod |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 called | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 saw | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wife | amod |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 wife | case |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 angry | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 angry | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 angry | cop |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 angry | advmod |
| 22 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 saw | parataxis |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 Nagor | case |
| 24 | Nagor | Nagor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 angry | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 told | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 told | cc |
| 27 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 told | iobj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 go | mark |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 told | xcomp |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 bury | cc |
| 32 | bury | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 go | conj |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 bury | obj |
| 34 | again | again | ADV | _ | 32 bury | advmod |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 grave | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 grave | det |
| 37 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bury | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Nagor | Nagor's father | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | Nagor not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | father | father's dead wife's head | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | past | father | with Nagor; angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | Nagor not said here | Nagor | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Nagor not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | bury | infinitive | Nagor not said here | head | the grave | again | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in grave=Destination |
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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