Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 25

After searching for some time they found him setting one of his traps, so they surrounded and caught him; then, having tied him up securely with his hands behind his back, they brought him into the town and handed him over to the head chief.

Who acts: people · What happens: search, find, set, surround, catch, tie up · To what, where: Agbor, one, people, town, head chief

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 (people), 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	_	2 searching	mark
2	searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 surrounded	advcl
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 searching	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	acl:relcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	obj
9	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 found	advcl
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 setting	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 traps	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 traps	nmod:poss
13	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 searching	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	17 surrounded	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 surrounded	nsubj:pass
17	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 caught	cc
19	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 surrounded	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 caught	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 tied	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 tied	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 then	punct
24	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 tied	aux
25	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 surrounded	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tied	obj
27	up	up	ADP	_	25 tied	compound:prt
28	securely	securely	ADV	_	25 tied	advmod
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 hands	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hands	nmod:poss
31	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 tied	obl
32	behind	behind	ADP	_	34 back	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 back	nmod:poss
34	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hands	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 brought	punct
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 brought	nsubj
37	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 surrounded	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 brought	obj
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 town	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 town	det
41	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 brought	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 handed	cc
43	handed	hand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 brought	conj
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 handed	obj
45	over	over	ADP	_	43 handed	compound:prt
46	to	to	ADP	_	49 chief	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 chief	det
48	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 chief	compound
49	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 handed	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 surrounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	gerund				time		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	find	past	people	Agbor				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
3	set	gerund	people not said here	one of Agbor's traps				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient one=Result
4	surround	participle · passive		people				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
5	catch	past		Agbor				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	tie up	gerund · perfect		Agbor		then	with Agbor's hands behind Agbor's back; securely property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient with hand=Co-Patient
7	bring	past	people	Agbor	the town			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into town=Destination
8	hand over	past	people not said here	Agbor	the head chief			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to chief=Destination

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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 25

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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 25