Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xii.--concerning the Okuni Witches and Cannibalism., sentence 20
After a month had elapsed she found that she had conceived and told her husband, who was delighted at the good news.
Who acts: Iya, husband · What happens: elapse, find, conceive, tell, be · To what, where: month, Iya, husband, good news · Speech: someone speaks here
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, husband), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 elapsed | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 month | det |
| 3 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 elapsed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 elapsed | aux |
| 5 | elapsed | elapse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 found | advcl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 conceived | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 conceived | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 conceived | aux |
| 11 | conceived | conceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 found | ccomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 husband | nmod:poss |
| 15 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | iobj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 delighted | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 delighted | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 delighted | cop |
| 19 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 husband | acl:relcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 news | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 news | det |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 news | amod |
| 23 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 delighted | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elapse | past · perfect · passive | a month | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find | past | Iya | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | conceive | past · perfect · passive | Iya | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Iya not said here | Iya's husband | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Iya's husband | the good news | delighted 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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