Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 75

When the night came the Chief saw that Agberamfe was looking sad, and told him to go home to his mother, but the boy would not go, and told his father that he was too fond of him to leave him and let him die alone.

Who acts: night, Chief, Agberamfe, boy, father · What happens: come, see, look, tell, go, not go · To what, where: Agberamfe, 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 (night, Chief, Agberamfe, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Chief	det
6	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 looking	mark
9	Agberamfe	Agberamfe	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 looking	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 looking	aux
11	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 saw	ccomp
12	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 looking	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 go	mark
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 told	xcomp
19	home	home	ADV	_	18 go	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 mother	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mother	nmod:poss
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 go	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 go	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 go	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 boy	det
26	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 go	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 go	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 go	advmod
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 go	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 told	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 told	cc
32	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	conj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 father	nmod:poss
34	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 told	iobj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 fond	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 fond	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 fond	cop
38	too	too	ADV	_	39 fond	advmod
39	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 told	ccomp
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 fond	obl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 leave	mark
43	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 told	ccomp
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 leave	obj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 let	cc
46	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 leave	conj
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 let	obj
48	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 let	xcomp
49	alone	alone	ADV	_	48 die	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the night				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	the Chief				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	look	past · progressive	Agberamfe			sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	tell speech: assert	past	the Chief not said here		Agberamfe		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Chief not said here			to Agberamfe's mother; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location
6	not go	would	the boy				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	tell speech: assert	past	the Chief not said here		boy's father		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
8	is	past	father			of boy; fond property	tree rules
9	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive		father			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
10	let	infinitive		father			tree rules
11	die	infinitive	father not said here			alone property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 75