Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 86
Achor then went to bed, but the next morning she rose early, and calling the dogs to follow her, she went to the farm, where she collected five bundles of firewood and placed them in a row.
Who acts: Achor · What happens: go, rise, call, follow, collect, place · To what, where: bed, dogs, Achor, farm, five bundles, bundles · 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 (Achor), 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 | Achor | Achor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 bed | case |
| 5 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rose | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 rose | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 morning | det |
| 9 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 morning | amod |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rose | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rose | nsubj |
| 12 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 rose | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 calling | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 calling | cc |
| 16 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dogs | det |
| 18 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 calling | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 follow | mark |
| 20 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 calling | advcl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 follow | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 farm | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 farm | det |
| 27 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 collected | punct |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 collected | advmod |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 collected | nsubj |
| 31 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 went | conj |
| 32 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 bundles | nummod |
| 33 | bundles | bundle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 collected | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 firewood | case |
| 35 | firewood | firewood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bundles | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 placed | cc |
| 37 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 went | conj |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 placed | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 row | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 row | det |
| 41 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 placed | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Achor | bed | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | rise | past | Achor | morning | early property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | call | gerund | Achor not said here | the dogs | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | follow | to-infinitive | Achor not said here | Achor | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | past | Achor | the farm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farm=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | collect | past | Achor | five bundles of firewood | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme | ||||
| 7 | place | past | Achor not said here | bundles = bundle | a row | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in row=Destination |
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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