Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 35
The people were not at all satisfied with this, so they lit a fire and put Agbor’s right leg into it.
Who acts: people · What happens: not be, light, put · To what, where: all, fire, right leg, leg
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 satisfied | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 satisfied | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 satisfied | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 satisfied | obl |
| 7 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 this | case |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 satisfied | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lit | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 lit | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lit | nsubj |
| 13 | lit | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 satisfied | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fire | det |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lit | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 put | cc |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 lit | conj |
| 18 | Agbor | Agbor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 leg | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Agbor | case |
| 20 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 leg | amod |
| 21 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 put | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the people | all | with this; satisfied property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | light | past | people | a fire | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | people not said here | Agbor's right leg | leg | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent leg=Goal |
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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