Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 13
Osewo then called all his sons together and gave each of them a sharp matchet, but to Agberamfe he gave a piece of iron.
Who acts: Osewo · What happens: call, give · To what, where: sons, each, piece, Agberamfe · 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 (Osewo), 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 | Osewo | Osewo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 called | advmod |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 sons | det:predet |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sons | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | xcomp |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gave | cc |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 gave | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 each | nmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 matchet | det |
| 14 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 matchet | amod |
| 15 | matchet | matchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 gave | cc |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Agberamfe | case |
| 19 | Agberamfe | Agberamfe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gave | nsubj |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 piece | det |
| 23 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 iron | case |
| 25 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 piece | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Osewo | Osewo's sons | then | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | give | past | Osewo not said here | each of degrees | a sharp matchet obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent each=Recipient matchet=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | past | Osewo | a piece of iron | Agberamfe | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent piece=Theme to agberamfe=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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