Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 93
This is what comes of telling you that my dogs carried the bundles for me.”
Who acts: This, dogs · What happens: be, come, tell, carry · To what, where: you, 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 (This, dogs), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 1 This | nmod |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 telling | mark |
| 6 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 comes | advcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 telling | iobj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 carried | mark |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 carried | nsubj |
| 11 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 telling | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bundles | det |
| 13 | bundles | bundle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 carried | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 carried | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | come | present | This | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | This not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | carry | past | my dogs | the bundles | for me | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=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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