Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 90
She also went from town to town, showing off her beauty, in the hopes that some man might fancy her and ask her to marry him.
Who acts: Omegha, man · What happens: go, show off, fancy, ask, marry · To what, where: town, beauty, hopes, Omegha, man
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 (Omegha, man), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 town | case |
| 5 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 showing | punct |
| 9 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 beauty | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 12 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 showing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hopes | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hopes | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hopes | det |
| 16 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 showing | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 fancy | obj |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fancy | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 fancy | aux |
| 21 | fancy | fancy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 hopes | acl:relcl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fancy | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ask | cc |
| 24 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 fancy | conj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 ask | iobj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 marry | mark |
| 27 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ask | xcomp |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 marry | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Omegha | town | to town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from town=Initial_Location to town=Destination | |||
| 2 | show off | gerund | Omegha not said here | Omegha's beauty | in the hopes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent beauty=Patient in hope=Topic | |||
| 3 | fancy | might | some man | the hopes | Omegha obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | some man not said here | Omegha | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | some man not said here | man | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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