Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 10
His servants, however, told him that Agbor was quite faithful to him, but he would not be convinced.
Who acts: servants, Agbor · What happens: tell, be, not be · To what, where: boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, Agbor), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 servants | nmod:poss |
| 2 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 told | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 servants | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 told | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 told | iobj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 faithful | mark |
| 9 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 faithful | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 faithful | cop |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 faithful | advmod |
| 12 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 told | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 faithful | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 convinced | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 convinced | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 convinced | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 convinced | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 convinced | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 convinced | cop |
| 21 | convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 faithful | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | boy's servants | boy | however property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is | past | Agbor | boy | faithful property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not is | would | Agbor | convinced property | tree rules |
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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