Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 104
The chief then told all the young men of the town to go early the next morning to the place where Ewa Abagi had been seen and to try and get her out of the river.
Who acts: chief · What happens: tell, go, see, try, get · To what, where: young men, place, Ewa, river · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 told | advmod |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 men | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 men | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 men | amod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 men | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | ccomp |
| 14 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 morning | det |
| 16 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 morning | amod |
| 17 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 place | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 place | det |
| 20 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 seen | advmod |
| 22 | Ewa | Ewa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | Abagi | Abagi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Ewa | flat |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 seen | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 seen | aux:pass |
| 26 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 place | acl:relcl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 try | cc |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 try | mark |
| 29 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 seen | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 get | cc |
| 31 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 try | conj |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 get | obj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 river | case |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 river | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 river | det |
| 36 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 get | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the chief | all young men of the town | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the place | morning | early property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | see | past · perfect · passive | Ewa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | try | to-infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | get | infinitive | EWA | the river | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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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