Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 130
Then all the people came out of the inside of the drum one after another, including the goats and other animals that the drum had swallowed.
Who acts: people · What happens: come out, swallow · To what, where: inside, drum
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 people | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 inside | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 inside | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 inside | det |
| 9 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 drum | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 drum | det |
| 12 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 inside | nmod |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 drum | flat |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 another | case |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 goats | punct |
| 17 | including | including | ADP | _ | 19 goats | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 goats | det |
| 19 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 animals | cc |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 animals | amod |
| 22 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 goats | conj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 swallowed | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 drum | det |
| 25 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 swallowed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 swallowed | aux |
| 27 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 goats | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | all people | the inside of the drum | then | including the goats and other animals | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient inside=Result | ||
| 2 | swallow | past · perfect · passive | the drum | the goats and other animals obj | tree rules |
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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