Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 31
So he called out that he had changed his mind, and told his sons to stop working and go home without finishing the work.
Who acts: boy · What happens: call out, change, tell, stop, work, go · To what, where: mind, sons, work · 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 (boy), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 called | compound:prt |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 changed | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 changed | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 changed | aux |
| 8 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 called | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mind | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 changed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sons | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 told | iobj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 stop | mark |
| 17 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 told | xcomp |
| 18 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 stop | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 go | cc |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 stop | conj |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 23 finishing | mark |
| 23 | finishing | finish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 go | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 work | det |
| 25 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 finishing | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | past | boy | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | change | past · perfect | boy | boy's mind | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | boy not said here | boy's sons | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | boy not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | work | gerund | boy not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | go | infinitive | boy not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | finish | gerund | boy not said here | the work | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality work=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | mind | boy | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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