Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 124
Both the women then went out to look for the boy, but could not find him or any of his companions, as they had all returned to their parents’ houses.
Who acts: women · What happens: go out, look, not find, return · To what, where: Ogor
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 (women), 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 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc:preconj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 women | det |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | advmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 boy | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 look | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 find | cc |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 find | advmod |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 find | obj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 any | cc |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 him | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 companions | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 companions | nmod:poss |
| 22 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 any | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 returned | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 returned | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 returned | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 returned | aux |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 returned | advmod |
| 28 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 find | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 houses | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 parents | nmod:poss |
| 31 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 houses | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 31 parents | case |
| 33 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 returned | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the women | then | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | the women not said here | for the boy | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for boy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not find | could | the women not said here | Ogor | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 4 | return | past · perfect | women = woman | to women's parents's houses result; all property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result |
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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