Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 44

When he had helped the others out, they all ran down to the beach, where they seized a canoe and paddled down river as hard as they could go to Akuna Muna.

Who acts: Edim, others · What happens: help out, run down, seize, paddle down, go · To what, where: others, canoe, river, Akuna

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 (Edim, others), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 helped	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 helped	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 helped	aux
4	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 ran	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 others	det
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 helped	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	4 helped	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 helped	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ran	nsubj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 they	det
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 ran	compound:prt
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 beach	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 beach	det
15	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ran	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seized	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 seized	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seized	nsubj
19	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 ran	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 canoe	det
21	canoe	canoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seized	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 paddled	cc
23	paddled	paddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seized	conj
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 paddled	compound:prt
25	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 paddled	obj
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 hard	advmod
27	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 paddled	advmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 go	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 go	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 go	aux
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 hard	advcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 Akuna	case
33	Akuna	Akuna	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 go	obl
34	Muna	Muna	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Akuna	flat
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	help out	past · perfect	Edim	the others			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Beneficiary
2	run down	past	others = other			to the beach result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to beach=Result
3	seize	past	others = other	a canoe			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canoe=Theme
4	paddle down	past	others = other not said here	river		hard property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Theme
5	go	could	others = other		Akuna		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to akuna=Initial_Location

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 44

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 44