Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 97
Omegha waited for a week, and then did as she had been advised to do by her father, and, after a month had elapsed, she found that she had conceived.
Who acts: Omegha · What happens: wait, do, advise, elapse, find, conceive · To what, where: Omegha, month · 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 (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 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 week | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 week | det |
| 5 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waited | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 did | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 did | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 did | advmod |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 advised | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 advised | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 advised | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 advised | aux:pass |
| 14 | advised | advise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 did | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 advised | xcomp |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 father | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 found | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 found | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 and | punct |
| 23 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 27 elapsed | mark |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 month | det |
| 25 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 elapsed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 elapsed | aux |
| 27 | elapsed | elapse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 found | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 elapsed | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 found | nsubj |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 conceived | mark |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 conceived | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 conceived | aux |
| 34 | conceived | conceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 found | ccomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | Omegha | week | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | past | Omegha not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | advise speech: other | past · perfect · passive | Omegha | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Omegha not said here | by Omegha's father | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | elapse | past · perfect · passive | a month | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | find | past | Omegha | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | 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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