Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xv.--what Happened At Okuni When Anyone Was Killed By Accident., sentence 96
On looking round the farm he saw the bodies of Chief Alankor and all his family, including the slaves, lying on the ground apparently dead.
Who acts: COCK · What happens: look, see, lie · To what, where: bodies, ground
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 (COCK), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 looking | mark |
| 2 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 saw | advcl |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 farm | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 farm | det |
| 5 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looking | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bodies | det |
| 9 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 saw | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Chief | case |
| 11 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bodies | nmod |
| 12 | Alankor | Alankor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Chief | flat |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 family | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 family | det:predet |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 family | nmod:poss |
| 16 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bodies | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 slaves | punct |
| 18 | including | including | ADP | _ | 20 slaves | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 slaves | det |
| 20 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 family | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lying | punct |
| 22 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 saw | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 ground | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ground | det |
| 25 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lying | obl |
| 26 | apparently | apparently | ADV | _ | 27 dead | advmod |
| 27 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ground | amod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | COCK not said here | round the farm | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round farm=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | COCK | the bodies of Chief and COCK's family and the slaves | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer body=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | COCK not said here | the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |
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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