Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 68
VIII.--HOW EWA ABAGI, AN INKUM WOMAN, WAS DROWNED IN THE CROSS RIVER, AND HOW SHE WAS RESCUED BY THE YOUNG MEN OF INSOFAN.
Who acts: YOUNG MEN · What happens: drown, rescue · To what, where: EWA, CROSS RIVER
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 (YOUNG MEN), 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 | VIII | VIII | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 13 DROWNED | obl |
| 2 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 VIII | punct |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 DROWNED | punct |
| 4 | HOW | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 DROWNED | advmod |
| 5 | EWA | EWA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 DROWNED | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | ABAGI | ABAGI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 EWA | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 WOMAN | punct |
| 8 | AN | AN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 WOMAN | compound |
| 9 | INKUM | INKUM | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 WOMAN | compound |
| 10 | WOMAN | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 EWA | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 EWA | punct |
| 12 | WAS | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 DROWNED | aux:pass |
| 13 | DROWNED | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | IN | in | ADP | _ | 17 RIVER | case |
| 15 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 RIVER | det |
| 16 | CROSS | CROSS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 RIVER | compound |
| 17 | RIVER | RIVER | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 DROWNED | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 RESCUED | punct |
| 19 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 RESCUED | cc |
| 20 | HOW | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 RESCUED | advmod |
| 21 | SHE | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 RESCUED | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | WAS | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 RESCUED | aux:pass |
| 23 | RESCUED | rescue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 DROWNED | conj |
| 24 | BY | by | ADP | _ | 27 MEN | case |
| 25 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 MEN | det |
| 26 | YOUNG | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 MEN | amod |
| 27 | MEN | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 RESCUED | obl |
| 28 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 29 INSOFAN | case |
| 29 | INSOFAN | insofan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 MEN | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 DROWNED | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | past · passive | EWA | the CROSS RIVER | VIII obl | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | rescue | past · passive | the YOUNG MEN of INSOFAN | EWA | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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