Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 136
She then thanked the porcupine, who went off to the chiefs of the town and delivered to them the message from the water ju-ju.
Who acts: Omegha, porcupine · What happens: thank, go off, deliver · To what, where: porcupine, message, towns, water ju ju
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 (Omegha, porcupine), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 thanked | advmod |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 porcupine | det |
| 5 | porcupine | porcupine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 porcupine | acl:relcl |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 went | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 chiefs | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chiefs | det |
| 12 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 town | det |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chiefs | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 delivered | cc |
| 17 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 delivered | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 message | det |
| 21 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 delivered | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 ju | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ju | det |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ju | compound |
| 25 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ju | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 ju | punct |
| 27 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 delivered | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Omegha | the porcupine | then | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porcupine=Theme | |||
| 2 | go off | past | the porcupine | to the chiefs of the town | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | deliver | past | Omegha not said here | the message | towns = town | the water ju ju | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to they=Destination from ju=Initial_Location |
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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