Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 79
I look to you to arrange how to get me and the remaining people over the river in safety.”
Who acts: I · What happens: look, arrange, get, remain · To what, where: you, me, people, river
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 you | case |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 look | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 arrange | mark |
| 6 | arrange | arrange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 look | advcl |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 get | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 arrange | ccomp |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 get | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 remaining | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 remaining | det |
| 13 | remaining | remain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 get | conj |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 remaining | obj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 river | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 river | det |
| 17 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 remaining | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 safety | case |
| 19 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 river | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | I | you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrange | to-infinitive | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | remain | gerund | I not said here | people | the river in safety | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme people=Attribute |
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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