Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 24
But before Okpa arrived Oghabi had cut the snake’s mouth and body right down with his hunting knife and released his leg.
Who acts: Okpa · What happens: arrive, cut, release · To what, where: Oghabi, mouth, leg
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 (Okpa), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 cut | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 arrived | mark |
| 3 | Okpa | Okpa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cut | advcl |
| 5 | Oghabi | Oghabi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cut | aux |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 snake | det |
| 9 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 snake | case |
| 11 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 body | cc |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mouth | conj |
| 14 | right | right | ADV | _ | 15 down | advmod |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 cut | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 knife | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 knife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knife | compound |
| 19 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cut | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 released | cc |
| 21 | released | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cut | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 leg | nmod:poss |
| 23 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 released | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Okpa | Oghabi | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cut | past · perfect | the snake's mouth and body | with OKPA's hunting knife; down property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient with knife=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | release | past | OKPA's leg | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer leg=Source |
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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