Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 26
When morning came Chief Osewo went into the bush calling upon his sons to follow him, but Agbor went with her son.
Who acts: morning, Chief, bush, Agbor · What happens: come, go, call, follow · To what, where: bush, Agbor · 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 (morning, Chief, bush, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 5 | Osewo | Osewo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Chief | flat |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 bush | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bush | det |
| 9 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 bush | acl |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 sons | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sons | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 calling | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 follow | mark |
| 15 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 calling | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 follow | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 19 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 son | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | Chief | the bush | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bush=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | the bush not said here | upon Agbor's sons | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | follow | to-infinitive | the bush not said here | Agbor | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go | past | Agbor | with chief's son | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with son=Beneficiary |
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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