Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 47
So when the dry season came round he told his favourite wife at night time that he had arranged with a blacksmith to kill the boy.
Who acts: dry season, head · What happens: come round, tell, arrange, kill · To what, where: favourite wife, boy · 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 (dry season, head), 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 | _ | 9 told | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 came | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 season | det |
| 4 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 season | amod |
| 5 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | advcl |
| 7 | round | round | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | nsubj |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wife | amod |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 time | compound |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 arranged | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 arranged | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 arranged | aux |
| 19 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 told | ccomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 blacksmith | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 blacksmith | det |
| 22 | blacksmith | blacksmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 arranged | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 kill | mark |
| 24 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 arranged | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 boy | det |
| 26 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kill | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come round | past | the dry season | round property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | head | head's favourite wife | time | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | arrange | past · perfect | head | with a blacksmith | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with blacksmith=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | kill | to-infinitive | head not said here | the boy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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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