Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 96
She then painted her daughter with _okukum_,[1] and having helped the child with the water pot, she returned to the river, and Essere went home.
Who acts: EWA, Essere · What happens: paint, have, help, return, go · To what, where: daughter, child
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 (EWA, Essere), 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 painted | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 painted | advmod |
| 3 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 painted | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 okukum | case |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 okukum | punct |
| 8 | okukum | okukum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 painted | obl |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 painted | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 helped | punct |
| 11 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 12 1 | punct |
| 12 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 helped | discourse |
| 13 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 12 1 | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 having | cc |
| 15 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 helped | nsubj |
| 16 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 painted | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 child | det |
| 18 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 helped | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 pot | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pot | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pot | compound |
| 22 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 helped | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 returned | punct |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 returned | nsubj |
| 25 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 painted | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 river | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 river | det |
| 28 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 returned | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 went | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 went | cc |
| 31 | Essere | Essere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 went | nsubj |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 painted | conj |
| 33 | home | home | ADV | _ | 32 went | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past | EWA | EWA's daughter | then | with okukum | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent daughter=Destination with okukum=Theme | ||
| 2 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | help | past | the child | with the water pot; 1 discourse | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent child=Beneficiary with pot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | return | past | EWA | to the river result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to river=Result | ||||
| 5 | go | past | Essere | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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