Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 5
His friends then came and carried the body of Ori to the head chief.
Who acts: friends · What happens: come, carry · To what, where: body, head chief
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 (friends), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friends | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 carried | cc |
| 6 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 body | det |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Ori | case |
| 10 | Ori | Ori | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 body | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 chief | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chief | det |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chief | compound |
| 14 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Okuni's friends | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | Okuni's friends not said here | the body of Ori | the head chief | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme to chief=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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