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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 116

When the play was finished, they all went down to the river to bathe, and swam out to a sand bank in the middle of the river, it being the dry season.

Who acts: COMPANIONS, play · What happens: finish, go down, bathe, swim out, be · To what, where: play, middle, dry season

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 (COMPANIONS, play), 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

advmoddetnsubj:passaux:passadvclpunctnsubjadvmodadvmodcasedetoblmarkadvclpunctccconjadvmodcasedetcompoundoblcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctnsubjcopdetamodoblpunctrootWhenADVtheDETplayNOUNwasAUXfinishedVERB,PUNCTtheyPRONallDETwentVERBdownADVtoADPtheDETriverNOUNtoPARTbatheVERB,PUNCTandCCONJswamVERBoutADVtoADPaDETsandNOUNbankNOUNinADPtheDETmiddleNOUNofADPtheDETriverNOUN,PUNCTitPRONbeingAUXtheDETdryADJseasonNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int5 finishedadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 playdet
3playplayNOUNNumber=Sing5 finishednsubj:pass
4wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 finishedaux:pass
5finishedfinishVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass9 wentadvcl
6,,PUNCT_5 finishedpunct
7theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs9 wentnsubj
8allallDETPronType=Tot9 wentadvmod
9wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10downdownADV_9 wentadvmod
11totoADP_13 rivercase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 riverdet
13riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing9 wentobl
14totoPART_15 bathemark
15bathebatheVERBVerbForm=Inf9 wentadvcl
16,,PUNCT_18 swampunct
17andandCCONJ_18 swamcc
18swamswimVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 wentconj
19outoutADV_18 swamadvmod
20totoADP_23 bankcase
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 bankdet
22sandsandNOUNNumber=Sing23 bankcompound
23bankbankNOUNNumber=Sing18 swamobl
24ininADP_26 middlecase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 middledet
26middlemiddleNOUNNumber=Sing18 swamobl
27ofofADP_29 rivercase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 riverdet
29riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing26 middlenmod
30,,PUNCT_35 seasonpunct
31ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 seasonnsubj
32beingbeAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part35 seasoncop
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 seasondet
34drydryADJDegree=Pos35 seasonamod
35seasonseasonNOUNNumber=Sing18 swamobl
36..PUNCT_9 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1finishpast · passivethe playvn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
2go downpastCOMPANIONS = companionto the river; down propertyvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3batheto-infinitiveCOMPANIONS = companion not said herevn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4swim outpastCOMPANIONS = companion not said herethe middle of the riverto a sand bank; out propertyvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bank=Destination
5is agerundplaythe dry seasontree 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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