Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xi.--how a Father Tried to Kill One of His Sons But Failed., sentence 76
So he stayed all that night with his father while his brothers were laughing and playing outside, and the Chief clearly saw that they did not care in the least that he was ill.
Who acts: father, brothers, Chief · What happens: stay, laugh, play, see, not care, be · To what, where: least · 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 (father, brothers, Chief), 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 | _ | 3 stayed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stayed | nsubj |
| 3 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 night | det:predet |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 father | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | obl |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 laughing | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 laughing | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 laughing | aux |
| 14 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stayed | advcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 playing | cc |
| 16 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 laughing | conj |
| 17 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 16 playing | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 saw | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 saw | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Chief | det |
| 21 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 22 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 23 saw | advmod |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stayed | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 care | mark |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 care | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 care | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 care | advmod |
| 28 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 saw | ccomp |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 least | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 least | det |
| 31 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 care | obl |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 ill | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 ill | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 ill | cop |
| 35 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 least | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | father | night | with father's father | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with father=Location | |||
| 2 | laugh | past · progressive | father's brothers | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | play | gerund | father's brothers not said here | outside property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | past | the Chief | clearly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | not care | past · do-support | brothers = brother | the least | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | is | past | father | ill property | tree rules |
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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