Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 25
So, after that, the Enfitop boys did not go to the play again, and the Inkum people lost their chance of getting any more of them for food.
Who acts: Enfitop boys, Inkum people, chance, people · What happens: not go, lose, get, chance · To what, where: play, chance, more
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 (Enfitop boys, Inkum people, chance, people), 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 | _ | 11 go | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 that | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 that | case |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 So | fixed |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 that | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boys | det |
| 7 | Enfitop | Enfitop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 boys | compound |
| 8 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 go | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 go | advmod |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 play | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 play | det |
| 14 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lost | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lost | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 people | det |
| 19 | Inkum | Inkum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 people | compound |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lost | nsubj |
| 21 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | advcl |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 chance | nmod:poss |
| 23 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lost | obj |
| 24 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 25 getting | mark |
| 25 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 chance | acl |
| 26 | any | any | ADV | _ | 27 more | advmod |
| 27 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 getting | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 more | nmod |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 food | case |
| 31 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 getting | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past · do-support | the Enfitop boys | the play | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to play=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | lose | past | the Inkum people | people's chance | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | get | gerund | people's chance not said here | more of people | for food | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent more=Theme for food=Source | |||
| 4 | chance | people | nom chance «state intransitive»: 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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