Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 112
Before he reached the house, his mother, who was returning from visiting one of her lovers, met him and gave him a sound flogging for being so disobedient.
Who acts: Ogor, mother, sound · What happens: reach, return, visit, meet, give, flog · To what, where: house, one, Ogor, sound
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, mother, sound), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 met | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mother | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 returning | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 returning | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 returning | aux |
| 12 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 mother | acl:relcl |
| 13 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 14 visiting | mark |
| 14 | visiting | visit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 returning | advcl |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 visiting | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 lovers | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lovers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 one | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 met | punct |
| 20 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 met | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gave | cc |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 met | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | iobj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sound | det |
| 26 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obj |
| 27 | flogging | flog | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 sound | acl |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 31 disobedient | mark |
| 29 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 disobedient | cop |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 disobedient | advmod |
| 31 | disobedient | disobedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 flogging | ccomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Ogor | the house | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | past · progressive | Ogor's mother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | visit | gerund | Ogor's mother not said here | one of mother's lovers | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | meet | past | Ogor | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||||
| 5 | give | past | a sound | Ogor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sound=Theme | ||||
| 6 | flog | gerund | a sound not said here | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | gerund | a sound not said here | disobedient 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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