Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 26
Okpa arrived shortly afterwards with his wife and together with the help of the slaves they carried Oghabi and the meat he had killed back to his house.
Who acts: Okpa, legs · What happens: arrive, carry, kill back, help · To what, where: Oghabi, meat, slaves
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, legs), 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 | Okpa | Okpa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 arrived | nsubj |
| 2 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 2 arrived | advmod |
| 4 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 2 arrived | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 wife | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 arrived | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 together | cc |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 wife | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 help | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 help | det |
| 12 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 arrived | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 slaves | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 slaves | det |
| 15 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 help | nmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 carried | nsubj |
| 17 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 slaves | acl:relcl |
| 18 | Oghabi | Oghabi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 carried | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 killed | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 meat | det |
| 21 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 killed | aux |
| 24 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 carried | conj |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 killed | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 house | nmod:poss |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 killed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Okpa | with OKPA's wife; with the help of the slaves; afterwards, shortly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | legs = leg | Oghabi | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oghabi=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill back | past · perfect · passive | the meat | to OKPA's house; OKPA nsubj:pass | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | help | the slaves | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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