Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 133
When they arrived, a report was sent round the whole country that the big wooden drum, the destroyer of men, was dead.
Who acts: people, big wooden drum · What happens: arrive, send, be · To what, where: report
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, big wooden drum), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 report | det |
| 6 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | aux:pass |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 country | det |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 country | amod |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 dead | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 drum | det |
| 15 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 drum | amod |
| 16 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 drum | amod |
| 17 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dead | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 destroyer | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 destroyer | det |
| 20 | destroyer | destroyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drum | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 men | case |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 destroyer | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drum | punct |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 dead | cop |
| 25 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sent | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | people | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | send | past · passive | a report | round the whole country | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the big wooden drum | dead property | 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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