Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 8
The next day she went again and wept on the grave, until at last the grave opened, and she could see the top of her mother’s head.
Who acts: Oga · What happens: go, weep, open, see · To what, where: grave, top
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 (Oga), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wept | cc |
| 8 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 grave | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 grave | det |
| 11 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wept | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 last | punct |
| 13 | until | until | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wept | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 grave | det |
| 17 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 last | nsubj |
| 18 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 grave | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 see | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 see | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 see | aux |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 top | det |
| 25 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 see | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 head | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mother | nmod:poss |
| 28 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 head | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 mother | case |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 top | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Oga | again; day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | weep | past | Oga not said here | the grave | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on grave=Destination | ||||
| 3 | open | participle | the grave not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | could | Oga | the top of Oga's mother's head | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer top=Stimulus |
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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