Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 61
At last, however, Chief Leku managed to hit the calabash with a stone, and at once took Akoba home as his wife.
Who acts: Chief · What happens: manage, hit, take · To what, where: last, calabash, 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 (Chief), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 managed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 managed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 managed | nsubj |
| 7 | Leku | Leku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Chief | flat |
| 8 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 hit | mark |
| 10 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 managed | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 calabash | det |
| 12 | calabash | calabash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hit | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 stone | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stone | det |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hit | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 once | case |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 took | obl |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 managed | conj |
| 21 | Akoba | Akoba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 22 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 took | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 wife | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 managed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | past | Chief | last | however property | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | hit | to-infinitive | Chief not said here | the calabash | with a stone | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent calabash=Patient with stone=Instrument | |||
| 3 | take | past | Chief not said here | Akoba | as Chief's wife; home property | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent akoba=Theme as wife=Attribute |
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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