Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 94
Omegha replied that, although she slept with plenty of men, she had never conceived.
Who acts: Omegha · What happens: reply, sleep, not conceive · To what, where: that, Omegha
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), 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 | Omegha | Omegha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 replied | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 slept | punct |
| 5 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 7 slept | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 slept | nsubj |
| 7 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 replied | parataxis |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 plenty | case |
| 9 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slept | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 men | case |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 plenty | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 conceived | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 conceived | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 conceived | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 conceived | advmod |
| 16 | conceived | conceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 slept | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Omegha | that | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sleep | past | Omegha | with plenty of men | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not conceive | past · perfect · passive | Omegha | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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