Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 19
She then threw all her old clothes away and walked back to the house where she put on a new cloth and joined her husband.
Who acts: Iya · What happens: throw, walk back, put, join · To what, where: old clothes, new cloth, husband
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 threw | advmod |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 clothes | det:predet |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 clothes | amod |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 threw | obj |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 threw | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 walked | cc |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 walked | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walked | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 put | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 put | nsubj |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 house | acl:relcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 cloth | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 cloth | det |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cloth | amod |
| 21 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 joined | cc |
| 23 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 put | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 husband | nmod:poss |
| 25 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 joined | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Iya | Iya's old clothes | then | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | ||
| 2 | walk back | past | Iya not said here | to the house result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result | ||||
| 3 | put | past | Iya | a new cloth | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cloth=Destination | ||||
| 4 | join | past | Iya not said here | Iya's husband | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=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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