Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 75
He will probably also just before he dies accuse the man whom he thinks made the ju-ju of having witched him.
Who acts: man, ju ju · What happens: die, accuse, think, make, have, witch · To what, where: man, ju ju · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man, ju ju), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 accuse | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 accuse | aux |
| 3 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 9 accuse | advmod |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 accuse | advmod |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 accuse | advmod |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 dies | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dies | nsubj |
| 8 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 accuse | advcl |
| 9 | accuse | accuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accuse | obj |
| 12 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 thinks | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thinks | nsubj |
| 14 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 man | acl:relcl |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thinks | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ju | det |
| 17 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ju | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 ju | punct |
| 19 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 having | mark |
| 21 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 ju | acl |
| 22 | witched | witch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 having | xcomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 witched | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 accuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | man | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | accuse | future | man | the man | probably property | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | man | the man | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent whom=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past | the ju ju | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ju=Product | |||||
| 5 | have | gerund | the ju ju not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | witch | participle | the ju ju not said here | man | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/1/75/