Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 164
So the porcupine went back and delivered the message to Chief Eka, who was very sorry as he was so fond of his son.
Who acts: porcupine, message · What happens: go back, deliver, be · To what, where: message, Chief
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, message), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 porcupine | det |
| 3 | porcupine | porcupine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 delivered | cc |
| 7 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 message | det |
| 9 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 delivered | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Chief | case |
| 11 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 message | nmod |
| 12 | Eka | Eka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Chief | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sorry | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 sorry | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sorry | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 sorry | advmod |
| 17 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 message | conj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 fond | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fond | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fond | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 fond | advmod |
| 22 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sorry | ccomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 son | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 son | nmod:poss |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fond | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | the porcupine | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | deliver | past | the porcupine not said here | the message | Chief | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to chief=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | past | the message | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | porcupine | of Chief's son; fond property | tree 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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