Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 96
He then advised her to live with the same man for a whole month, and then see what would happen.
Who acts: father, Omegha · What happens: advise, live, see, happen · To what, where: Omegha · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (father, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 advised | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 advised | advmod |
| 3 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 advised | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 live | mark |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 advised | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 man | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 live | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 month | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 month | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 month | amod |
| 14 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 see | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 see | advmod |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 advised | conj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 happen | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 happen | aux |
| 21 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 see | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 advised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | past | father | Omegha | then | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | live not said to happen | to-infinitive | Omegha not said here | with the same man for a whole month | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with man=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | father not said here | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | happen | would | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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