Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 109

When the boys saw who it was had come to play with them, they asked him why he did not always come out and join them, so he told them that his grandmother would not allow him to go out of the house.

Who acts: boys, Ogor, grandmother · What happens: see, come, play, ask, not come out, join · To what, where: Ogor, boys, house · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boys, Ogor, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 asked	advcl
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 come	nsubj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 come	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux:pass
8	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 saw	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 play	mark
11	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 come	xcomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 play	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 asked	nsubj
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 asked	iobj
18	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	23 come	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 come	advmod
22	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	23 come	advmod
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 asked	xcomp
24	out	out	ADV	_	23 come	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 join	cc
26	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 come	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 join	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 told	punct
29	so	so	ADV	_	31 told	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 told	nsubj
31	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 asked	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 told	iobj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 allow	mark
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 grandmother	nmod:poss
35	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 allow	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 allow	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 allow	advmod
38	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 told	xcomp
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 allow	iobj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 go	mark
41	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 allow	xcomp
42	out	out	ADP	_	45 house	case
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 house	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 house	det
45	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 go	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the boys				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come	past · perfect · passive				who nsubj; company nsubj	tree rules
3	play	to-infinitive				with boys = boy	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	boys = boy		Ogor		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	not come out not said to happen	past · do-support	Ogor			always, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
6	join	infinitive	Ogor not said here	boys = boy			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
7	tell speech: assert	past	Ogor		boys = boy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
8	not allow not said to happen	would	Ogor's grandmother		Ogor		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
9	go out not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ogor's grandmother not said here	the house			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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 109

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 109