Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 26
The chief asked Agbor who had killed Awo and the two children, and he replied that he had done so as they had made him angry.
Who acts: chief, Agbor, chiefs · What happens: ask, kill, reply, do, make · To what, where: Agbor, Awo · 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 (chief, Agbor, chiefs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 killed | aux |
| 7 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | Awo | Awo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 killed | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 children | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 children | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 children | nummod |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Awo | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 replied | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 replied | nsubj |
| 16 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 done | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 done | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 done | aux |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 replied | ccomp |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 made | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 made | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 made | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 made | aux |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 done | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 made | obj |
| 27 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 made | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the chief | Agbor | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent agbor=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | kill | past · perfect · passive | Awo and the two children | who nsubj:pass | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer awo=Result | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Agbor | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | Agbor | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | make | past · perfect | chiefs = chief | Agbor | angry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
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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