Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 110
The boys then said they were hot from playing and were going down to the river to bathe.
Who acts: boys · What happens: say, be, play, go down, bathe · 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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boys | det |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hot | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hot | cop |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 8 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 9 playing | mark |
| 9 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 hot | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 going | cc |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 going | aux |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 said | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 going | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 river | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 river | det |
| 16 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 going | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 bathe | mark |
| 18 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 going | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the boys | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | boys = boy | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | play | gerund | boys = boy not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go down | past · progressive | the boys not said here | to the river; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | bathe | to-infinitive | the boys not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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