Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 54
The chief then asked Oghabi whether he had tasted the food he brought for Okpa, and Oghabi replied that he had done so and that his wife had cooked and eaten some of the food.
Who acts: chief, OGHABI · What happens: ask, taste, bring, reply, do, cook · To what, where: Oghabi, food, wife, some · 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, OGHABI), 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 | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 asked | advmod |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Oghabi | Oghabi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | iobj |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 9 tasted | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tasted | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tasted | aux |
| 9 | tasted | taste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 food | det |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tasted | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 brought | nsubj |
| 13 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 food | acl:relcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 Okpa | case |
| 15 | Okpa | Okpa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 brought | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 replied | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 replied | cc |
| 18 | Oghabi | Oghabi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 replied | nsubj |
| 19 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 done | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 done | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 done | aux |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 replied | ccomp |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 cooked | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 cooked | cc |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 cooked | mark |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 wife | nmod:poss |
| 28 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 cooked | aux |
| 30 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 done | advcl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 eaten | cc |
| 32 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 cooked | conj |
| 33 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 eaten | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 food | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 food | det |
| 36 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 some | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the chief | Oghabi | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent oghabi=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | taste | past · perfect | OGHABI | the food | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme food=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | OGHABI | the food not said here | for Okpa | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme | |||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | Oghabi | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do | past · perfect | OGHABI | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | cook | past · perfect · passive | OGHABI's wife | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 7 | eat | participle | some of the food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=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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