Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 105
When they got to the place where the evil monster was, they tied both of his legs very securely with the tie-tie, and then went back by the way they had come.
Who acts: holes, evil monster · What happens: get, be, tie, go back, come · To what, where: place, both, way
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (holes, evil monster), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 tied | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 place | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 monster | det |
| 9 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 monster | amod |
| 10 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 where | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 where | cop |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tied | nsubj |
| 14 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 tied | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 legs | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 legs | nmod:poss |
| 18 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 both | nmod |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 securely | advmod |
| 20 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 14 tied | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 tie | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tie | det |
| 23 | tie | tie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tie | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 tie | punct |
| 25 | tie | tie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tied | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 went | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 went | cc |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 went | advmod |
| 29 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 tied | conj |
| 30 | back | back | ADV | _ | 29 went | advmod |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 way | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 way | det |
| 33 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 went | obl |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 come | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 come | aux |
| 36 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 way | acl:relcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | holes = hole | to the place result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the evil monster | the place not said here | where property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | tie | past | holes = hole | both of rabbit's legs | with the tie tie; securely property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent both=Patient with tie=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | go back | past | holes = hole not said here | then | by the way | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | come | past · perfect | holes = hole | the way not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
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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