Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 17
Agbor at once thought that her husband must have some evil design upon her son; so that night she went to the place where her husband was going to make his farm and saw the Queen of the White Ants.
Who acts: Agbor, husband, chief · What happens: think, have, go, make, see · To what, where: evil design, place, farm, Queen
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 (Agbor, husband, 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 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 once | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 thought | obl |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 design | det |
| 11 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 design | amod |
| 12 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 son | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 design | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 21 went | mark |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 night | det |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 place | det |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 going | advmod |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 husband | nmod:poss |
| 27 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 going | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 going | aux |
| 29 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 went | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 make | mark |
| 31 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 going | xcomp |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 farm | nmod:poss |
| 33 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 make | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 saw | cc |
| 35 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 went | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Queen | det |
| 37 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 saw | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Ants | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Ants | det |
| 40 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 Ants | amod |
| 41 | Ants | Ant | PROPN | Number=Plur | 37 Queen | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Agbor | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | must | chief's husband | some evil design | upon chief's son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent design=Patient | |||
| 3 | go | past | chief | the place | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | chief's husband | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | chief's husband not said here | husband's farm | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset farm=Product | ||||
| 6 | see | past | chief not said here | the Queen of the White Ants | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus |
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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