Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 51
He was quite prepared, fortunately, and ran off home at once and told his father what had happened.
Who acts: son · What happens: be, run off, tell, happen · To what, where: father · 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 (son), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 prepared | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prepared | cop |
| 3 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 prepared | advmod |
| 4 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fortunately | punct |
| 6 | fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 4 prepared | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ran | cc |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prepared | parataxis |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 ran | compound:prt |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 ran | advmod |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 once | case |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 ran | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 told | cc |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ran | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | iobj |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 happened | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 happened | aux |
| 20 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 told | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | son | fortunately, prepared property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run off | past | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | son's father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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