Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 51
The chief sent for Oghabi and his wife and called the chiefs of the town together to hold palaver.
Who acts: chief · What happens: send, call, hold · To what, where: chiefs, palaver · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (chief), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 Oghabi | case |
| 5 | Oghabi | Oghabi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wife | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Oghabi | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 called | cc |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chiefs | det |
| 12 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 called | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 town | det |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 chiefs | nmod |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 called | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 hold | mark |
| 18 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 called | advcl |
| 19 | palaver | palaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hold | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the chief | for Oghabi and OGHABI's wife | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | call | past | the chief not said here | the chiefs of the town | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient | |||
| 3 | hold | to-infinitive | the chief not said here | palaver | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palaver=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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