Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 82
When they reached the house it was night time, so the chief went to bed and told Achor what had happened to his new wife.
Who acts: DOGS, house, chief · What happens: reach, be, go, tell, happen · To what, where: house, night time, bed, Achor · 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 (DOGS, house, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 time | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 time | cop |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 time | compound |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chief | det |
| 13 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 bed | case |
| 16 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 told | cc |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | conj |
| 19 | Achor | Achor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 told | iobj |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 happened | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 happened | aux |
| 22 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 told | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 wife | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wife | amod |
| 26 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 happened | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | DOGS = dog | the house | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | house | night time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the chief | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | the chief not said here | Achor | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent achor=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | happen | past · perfect | to Chief's new wife; what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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