Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 58
When she saw that so many men were bidding for her, she got a calabash and painted it different colours.
Who acts: Akoba, many men · What happens: see, bid, get, paint · To what, where: that, calabash · 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 (Akoba, many men), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 many | advmod |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bidding | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bidding | aux |
| 9 | bidding | bid | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bidding | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 got | nsubj |
| 14 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 calabash | det |
| 16 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 got | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 painted | cc |
| 18 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 got | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 painted | obj |
| 20 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 colours | amod |
| 21 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 painted | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Akoba | that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bid | past · progressive | many men | for Akoba | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | past | Akoba | a calabash | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer calabash=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | paint | past | Akoba not said here | calabash | different colours obj | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent it=Patient colour=Result |
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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