Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 91
Then the chief came out and said to Achor, “Look what you have done.
Who acts: chief, Achor · What happens: come out, say, look, do · To what, where: 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 (chief, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chief | det |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Achor | case |
| 9 | Achor | Achor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Look | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Look | punct |
| 12 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 done | obj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 done | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 Look | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the chief | then | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the chief not said here | Achor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to achor=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | look in a quote | infinitive | the chief not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present · perfect | Achor | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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