Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 74
The child turned out to be a girl, and shortly after her birth, Ewa Abagi bought a young slave woman called Mossim to look after her baby, while she herself went to the different markets trading.
Who acts: child, birth, EWA · What happens: turn out, be, buy, call, look, go · To what, where: girl, young slave woman, markets trading · 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 (child, birth, EWA), 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 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 turned | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 girl | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 girl | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 bought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bought | cc |
| 11 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 14 birth | advmod |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 birth | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 birth | nmod:poss |
| 14 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bought | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ewa | punct |
| 16 | Ewa | Ewa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 birth | appos |
| 17 | Abagi | Abagi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Ewa | flat |
| 18 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 woman | det |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 woman | amod |
| 21 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 woman | compound |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bought | obj |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 woman | acl |
| 24 | Mossim | Mossim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 called | xcomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 look | mark |
| 26 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 called | advcl |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 baby | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 baby | nmod:poss |
| 29 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 look | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 went | punct |
| 31 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 34 went | mark |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 went | nsubj |
| 33 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 she | conj |
| 34 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bought | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 trading | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 trading | det |
| 37 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 markets | amod |
| 38 | markets | market | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 trading | compound |
| 39 | trading | trading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 went | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn out | past | the child | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the child not said here | a girl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | buy | past | child's birth | a young slave woman | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | a young slave woman not said here | Mossim xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | after EWA's baby | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | go | past | EWA | the markets trading | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to trading=Initial_Location |
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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