Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 75
Up to the present I have been known to all people as a good fighter and leader, but I shall always be ashamed to meet the Enfitop people now.
Who acts: I · What happens: know, be, meet · To what, where: I, Enfitop people
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 (I), 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 8 known | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 present | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 present | det |
| 4 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 known | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 known | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 known | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 known | aux:pass |
| 8 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 known | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 fighter | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fighter | det |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fighter | amod |
| 15 | fighter | fighter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 known | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 leader | cc |
| 17 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fighter | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ashamed | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 ashamed | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 ashamed | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 ashamed | aux |
| 22 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 24 ashamed | advmod |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ashamed | cop |
| 24 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 known | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 meet | mark |
| 26 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ashamed | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 people | det |
| 28 | Enfitop | Enfitop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 people | compound |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 meet | obj |
| 30 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 meet | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · perfect · passive | I | to the present; to all people; as a good fighter and leader | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as fighter=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | shall | I | always, ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | I not said here | the Enfitop people | now | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-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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