Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 104
As Omegha was a poor woman, she used to take her little son with her to the farm every day.
Who acts: Omegha · What happens: be, use, take · To what, where: poor woman, little son, farm
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Omegha), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 woman | mark |
| 2 | Omegha | Omegha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 woman | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 woman | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 used | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 woman | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 used | nsubj |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 take | mark |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 used | xcomp |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 son | amod |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 take | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 farm | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 farm | det |
| 19 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obl |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Omegha | a poor woman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | past | Omegha | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | Omegha not said here | Omegha's little son | the farm | day | with Omegha | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme to farm=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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