Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 6
This did not alter the chief’s feeling in any way towards her, and he took a violent dislike to the little boy.
Who acts: This, Agberamfe · What happens: not alter, take · To what, where: feeling, way, violent dislike, little boy
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 (This, Agberamfe), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 alter | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 alter | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 alter | advmod |
| 4 | alter | alter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chief | det |
| 6 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feeling | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 chief | case |
| 8 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 alter | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 alter | obl |
| 12 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 way | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 alter | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dislike | det |
| 19 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dislike | amod |
| 20 | dislike | dislike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 boy | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 boy | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 boy | amod |
| 24 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 alter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not alter | past · do-support | This | the chief's feeling | any way towards chief | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent feeling=Patient | |||
| 2 | take | past | Agberamfe | a violent dislike | the little boy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dislike=Theme to boy=Destination |
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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