Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 39
Agbor, who was waiting outside, then gave her son some strong tie-tie which had been made into a running noose.
Who acts: Agbor, some · What happens: wait, give, tie, make, run · To what, where: son, strong tie tie, running noose
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, some), 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 | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 waiting | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 waiting | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 waiting | aux |
| 5 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Agbor | acl |
| 6 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 5 waiting | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Agbor | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 gave | advmod |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | iobj |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 tie | nsubj |
| 13 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tie | amod |
| 14 | tie | tie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tie | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 tie | punct |
| 16 | tie | tie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 made | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 made | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 made | aux:pass |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 tie | acl:relcl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 noose | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 noose | det |
| 23 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 noose | amod |
| 24 | noose | noose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · progressive | Agbor | outside property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Agbor | chief's son | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | |||
| 3 | tie | some | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | make | past · perfect · passive | strong tie tie | a running noose | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into noose=Product | ||||
| 5 | run | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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