Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 160
The porcupine agreed to go, providing Chief Eka gave him one slave and 500 rods for his trouble.
Who acts: porcupine, Chief · What happens: agree, go, provide, give, trouble · To what, where: one slave, porcupine
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 (porcupine, Chief), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 porcupine | det |
| 2 | porcupine | porcupine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 agreed | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 providing | punct |
| 7 | providing | provide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 go | advcl |
| 8 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | Eka | Eka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Chief | flat |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 providing | ccomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 slave | nummod |
| 13 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rods | cc |
| 15 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 rods | nummod |
| 16 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 slave | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 trouble | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 19 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rods | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the porcupine | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the porcupine not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | provide | gerund | the porcupine not said here | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give | past | Chief | one slave and 500 rods for porcupine's trouble | porcupine | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient slave=Theme | |||
| 5 | trouble | porcupine | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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