Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xiv.--the Fate of Agbor the Hunter, Who Killed His Wife and Children., sentence 40
He then dug the skull up again, and placed it on the ground outside the door of his house.
Who acts: Agbor · What happens: dig up, place · To what, where: skull, ground
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 (Agbor), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dug | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 dug | advmod |
| 3 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skull | det |
| 5 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dug | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 dug | compound:prt |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 dug | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 placed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 placed | cc |
| 10 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dug | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 placed | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 ground | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ground | det |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 placed | obl |
| 15 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 placed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 house | nmod:poss |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 door | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig up | past | Agbor | the skull | then; again | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent skull=Theme | |||
| 2 | place | past | Agbor not said here | skull | the ground | outside the door of Agbor's house | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on ground=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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