Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 11
After another year had passed, Osewo, having drunk a lot of tombo one evening, sent for Agbor to sleep with him, and in due course she conceived and gave birth to a little girl baby whose name was ’Nse.
Who acts: chief · What happens: pass, have, send, sleep, conceive, give · To what, where: Osewo, lot, due course, birth, little girl baby
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 (chief), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 year | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Osewo | punct |
| 7 | Osewo | Osewo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 having | punct |
| 9 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 passed | advcl |
| 10 | drunk | drunk | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 lot | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lot | det |
| 12 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 having | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tombo | case |
| 14 | tombo | tombo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lot | nmod |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 evening | nummod |
| 16 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 having | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sent | punct |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 passed | parataxis |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 Agbor | case |
| 20 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sent | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 sleep | mark |
| 22 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sent | advcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sleep | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 conceived | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 conceived | cc |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 course | case |
| 28 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 course | amod |
| 29 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 conceived | obl |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 conceived | nsubj |
| 31 | conceived | conceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | parataxis |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 gave | cc |
| 33 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 conceived | conj |
| 34 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gave | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 baby | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 baby | det |
| 37 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 baby | amod |
| 38 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 baby | compound |
| 39 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gave | obl |
| 40 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 41 name | nmod:poss |
| 41 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 ’ | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 ’ | cop |
| 43 | ’ | ' | X | _ | 39 baby | appos |
| 44 | Nse | Nse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 ’ | goeswith |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect | Osewo | year | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | drunk lot of tombo | evening | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Patient | ||||
| 3 | send | participle | for Agbor | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sleep | to-infinitive | with Agbor | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | conceive | past | chief | due course | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | give | past | chief not said here | birth | a little girl baby | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to baby=Recipient |
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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