Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 4

Her daughter Oga was quite young when her mother died; her breasts were only just beginning to get round, and she had not been circumcised.

Who acts: daughter, mother, breasts · What happens: be, die, begin, get round, not circumcise · 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 (daughter, mother, breasts), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 daughter	nmod:poss
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 young	nsubj
3	Oga	Oga	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 daughter	appos
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 young	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 young	advmod
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 died	mark
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 died	nsubj
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 young	advcl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 died	punct
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 breasts	nmod:poss
13	breasts	breast	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 beginning	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 beginning	aux
15	only	only	ADV	_	17 beginning	advmod
16	just	just	ADV	_	17 beginning	advmod
17	beginning	begin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 died	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 get	mark
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 beginning	xcomp
20	round	round	ADV	_	19 get	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 circumcised	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 circumcised	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 circumcised	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 circumcised	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 circumcised	advmod
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 circumcised	aux:pass
27	circumcised	circumcise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 young	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 young	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Aikor's daughter		young property	tree rules
2	die	past	Oga's mother			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	begin	past · progressive	mother's breasts			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	get round	to-infinitive	mother's breasts not said here		round property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	not circumcise	past · perfect · passive		mother		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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 4

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 4