Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 105
But when Ogor was six years old, she got tired of doing this, and used to leave him in the house with his grandmother, who was very fond of him.
Who acts: Ogor, Omegha, grandmother · What happens: be, get, do, use, leave · To what, where: this, Ogor, house
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 (Ogor, Omegha, grandmother), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 old | mark |
| 3 | Ogor | Ogor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 old | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 old | cop |
| 5 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 old | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 got | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 old | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 got | xcomp |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 doing | mark |
| 13 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 tired | advcl |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 doing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 used | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 used | cc |
| 17 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 leave | mark |
| 19 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 used | xcomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 leave | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leave | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 grandmother | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 26 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leave | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fond | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 fond | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 fond | cop |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 31 fond | advmod |
| 31 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 grandmother | acl:relcl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 fond | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ogor | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | past | Omegha | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | do | gerund | Omegha not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | use | past | Omegha not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | leave | to-infinitive | Omegha not said here | Ogor | the house | with Ogor's grandmother | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in house=Location | ||
| 6 | is | past | Ogor's grandmother | of Ogor; fond property | tree rules |
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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