Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 55
She did not wear any clothes, as she preferred to walk about naked, so that everyone could see her fine skin.
Who acts: Akoba, everyone · What happens: not wear, prefer, walk, see · To what, where: clothes, Akoba
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 (Akoba, everyone), 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 | 4 wear | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wear | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wear | advmod |
| 4 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 clothes | det |
| 6 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 wear | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 preferred | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 preferred | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 preferred | nsubj |
| 10 | preferred | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wear | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 walk | mark |
| 12 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 preferred | xcomp |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 naked | case |
| 14 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 walk | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 see | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | fixed |
| 18 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 see | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 walk | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 skin | amod |
| 23 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wear | past · do-support | Akoba | any clothes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source | ||||
| 2 | prefer | past | Akoba | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | walk not said to happen | to-infinitive | Akoba not said here | about naked | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about naked=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | see | could | everyone | Akoba | fine skin obj | tree rules |
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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