Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 22
There he saw the floor was covered with blood, and the three dead bodies were lying together on the bed.
Who acts: Edim, three dead bodies · What happens: see, cover, lie · To what, where: floor, bed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Edim, three dead bodies), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 floor | det |
| 5 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 covered | aux:pass |
| 7 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 blood | case |
| 9 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 covered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lying | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lying | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bodies | det |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 bodies | nummod |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bodies | amod |
| 15 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lying | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lying | aux |
| 17 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | conj |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 17 lying | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 bed | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bed | det |
| 21 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lying | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Edim | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cover | past · passive | the floor | with blood | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with blood=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie | past · progressive | the three dead bodies | the bed | together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=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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