Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 18
Iya Agagim then went down to the town beach on the Cross River and washed herself very carefully.
Who acts: Iya · What happens: go down, wash · To what, where: Iya
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iya), 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 | Iya | Iya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 2 | Agagim | Agagim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iya | flat |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 beach | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beach | det |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beach | compound |
| 9 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 River | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 River | det |
| 12 | Cross | Cross | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 River | compound |
| 13 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 beach | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 washed | cc |
| 15 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 washed | obj |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 carefully | advmod |
| 18 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 15 washed | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | Iya | then | to the town beach on the Cross River; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | wash | past | Iya not said here | Iya | carefully property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |
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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