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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 131

The water ju-ju replied that he had saved Ogor’s life as he was sorry for Omegha and her mother, who were poor people, and only had this one boy.

Who acts: water, mother · What happens: reply, save, be, have · To what, where: life, poor people, one boy · 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 (water, mother), 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

detnsubjappospunctflatmarknsubjauxccompnmod:posscaseobjmarknsubjcopadvclcaseoblccnmod:possconjpunctnsubjcopamodnmodpunctccadvmodconjdetcompoundobjpunctrootTheDETwaterNOUNjuPROPN-PUNCTjuPROPNrepliedVERBthatSCONJhePRONhadAUXsavedVERBOgorPROPN’sPARTlifeNOUNasSCONJhePRONwasAUXsorryADJforADPOmeghaPROPNandCCONJherPRONmotherNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONwereAUXpoorADJpeopleNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJonlyADVhadVERBthisDEToneNOUNboyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 waterdet
2waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing6 repliednsubj
3jujuPROPNNumber=Sing2 waterappos
4--PUNCT_5 jupunct
5jujuPROPNNumber=Sing3 juflat
6repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7thatthatSCONJ_10 savedmark
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 savednsubj
9hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 savedaux
10savedsaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part6 repliedccomp
11OgorOgorPROPNNumber=Sing13 lifenmod:poss
12’s'sPART_11 Ogorcase
13lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing10 savedobj
14asasSCONJ_17 sorrymark
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 sorrynsubj
16wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 sorrycop
17sorrysorryADJDegree=Pos10 savedadvcl
18forforADP_19 Omeghacase
19OmeghaOmeghaPROPNNumber=Sing17 sorryobl
20andandCCONJ_22 mothercc
21herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 mothernmod:poss
22mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing19 Omeghaconj
23,,PUNCT_27 peoplepunct
24whowhoPRONPronType=Rel27 peoplensubj
25werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 peoplecop
26poorpoorADJDegree=Pos27 peopleamod
27peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur22 mothernmod
28,,PUNCT_31 hadpunct
29andandCCONJ_31 hadcc
30onlyonlyADV_31 hadadvmod
31hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 repliedconj
32thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem34 boydet
33oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing34 boycompound
34boyboyNOUNNumber=Sing31 hadobj
35..PUNCT_6 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastthe watervn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2savepast · perfectwaterOgor's lifevn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
3ispastwaterfor Omegha and Omegha's mother; sorry propertytree rules
4is apastOmegha's motherpoor peopletree rules
5havepastthe water not said herethis one boyvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient

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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