Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 125
(The author has killed seven at one shot, with number 6 from a full choke 12-bore, at the particular request of a chief who wanted them for food.)
Who acts: chief · What happens: kill, want, request · To what, where: author, particular request, chiefs, chief
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 author | det |
| 3 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 killed | aux |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 killed | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 shot | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 shot | nummod |
| 9 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seven | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 number | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 number | case |
| 12 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 killed | obl |
| 13 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 number | flat |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 12-bore | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 12-bore | det |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 12-bore | amod |
| 17 | choke | choke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 12-bore | compound |
| 18 | 12-bore | 12-bore | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 12 number | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 request | punct |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 request | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 request | det |
| 22 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 request | amod |
| 23 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 killed | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 chief | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 chief | det |
| 26 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 request | nmod |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 wanted | nsubj |
| 28 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 chief | acl:relcl |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 wanted | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 food | case |
| 31 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wanted | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present · perfect · passive | the author | the particular request of a chief | with number from a full choke 12-bore; seven obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer seven=Result | |||
| 2 | want | past | a chief | chiefs = chief | for food | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot they=Theme | |||
| 3 | request | a chief | nom request «communication transitive»: of=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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