Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Opening, sentence 81
They would then resort to the usual trial by ordeal of burning oil and _essure_ (poison) bean, which would result in several deaths.
Who acts: chiefs, poison bean · What happens: resort, burn, result · To what, where: poison bean, several deaths
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 (chiefs, poison bean), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 resort | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 resort | aux |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 resort | advmod |
| 4 | resort | resort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 trial | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trial | det |
| 7 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trial | amod |
| 8 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 resort | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 ordeal | case |
| 10 | ordeal | ordeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 resort | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 oil | case |
| 12 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 oil | amod |
| 13 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ordeal | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 essure | cc |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 16 essure | punct |
| 16 | essure | essure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 oil | conj |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 21 bean | punct |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 poison | punct |
| 19 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bean | compound |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 poison | punct |
| 21 | bean | bean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 resort | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 result | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 result | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 result | aux |
| 25 | result | result | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 bean | acl:relcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 deaths | case |
| 27 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 deaths | amod |
| 28 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 result | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 resort | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resort | would | chiefs = chief | poison bean | then | to the usual trial result; by ordeal of burning oil and essure | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to trial=Result | ||
| 2 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | result | would | poison bean | several deaths | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in death=Location |
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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