Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 20
Chief Osode said that he thought the plan a very good one, particularly as it brought them in a supply of food which was always welcome.
Who acts: Chief, plan, food · What happens: say, think, bring, be · To what, where: plan, members, supply · 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 (Chief, plan, food), 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 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | Osode | Osode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Chief | flat |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 thought | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 thought | nsubj |
| 6 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 plan | det |
| 8 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 good | advmod |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | amod |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thought | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | punct |
| 14 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 17 brought | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 brought | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | nsubj |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 supply | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 supply | det |
| 21 | supply | supply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 food | case |
| 23 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 supply | nmod |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 welcome | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 welcome | cop |
| 26 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 27 welcome | advmod |
| 27 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 food | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Chief | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Chief | the plan | a good one xcomp | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot plan=Theme | |||
| 3 | bring | past | plan | members = member | a supply of food | particularly property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||
| 4 | is | past | food | always, welcome 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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