Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 84
She then dressed the child and put on the cloth and beads of Ewa Abagi herself, having just tied up her own clothes into a bundle with some stones and thrown them into the Cross River.
Who acts: mother, own clothes · What happens: dress, put, have, tie up, throw · To what, where: child, mother, cloth, own clothes, bundle, clothes
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 (mother, own clothes), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dressed | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 dressed | advmod |
| 3 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dressed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 put | cc |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dressed | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 cloth | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cloth | det |
| 10 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 beads | cc |
| 12 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cloth | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Abagi | case |
| 14 | Ewa | Ewa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Abagi | compound |
| 15 | Abagi | Abagi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 beads | nmod |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 put | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 having | punct |
| 18 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 put | advcl |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 tied | advmod |
| 20 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 having | xcomp |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 tied | compound:prt |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 clothes | amod |
| 24 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 18 having | obj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 bundle | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bundle | det |
| 27 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 having | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 stones | case |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 stones | det |
| 30 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 having | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 thrown | cc |
| 32 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 having | conj |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 thrown | obj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 River | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 River | det |
| 36 | Cross | Cross | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 River | compound |
| 37 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 thrown | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past | mother | the child | then | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | |||
| 2 | put | participle | mother not said here | mother | the cloth and beads of Ewa Abagi | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cloth=Destination | |||
| 3 | have | gerund | mother not said here | mother's own clothes | a bundle | with some stones | tree rules | ||
| 4 | tie up | participle | mother's own clothes not said here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | throw | participle | mother not said here | clothes | the Cross River | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme into river=Destination |
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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