Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 134
Then the men went to the home of the big drum with axes, and cut the drum into pieces and carried them to Inkang Ezen’s house.
Who acts: men · What happens: go, cut, carry · To what, where: home, drum, pieces, people, house
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 (men), 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 | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 home | det |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 drum | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 drum | det |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 drum | amod |
| 11 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 home | nmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 axes | case |
| 13 | axes | ax | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 drum | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cut | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cut | cc |
| 16 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 drum | det |
| 18 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cut | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 pieces | case |
| 20 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cut | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 carried | cc |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 carried | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 25 | Inkang | Inkang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 house | nmod:poss |
| 26 | Ezen | Ezen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Inkang | flat |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Inkang | case |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the men | the home of the big drum with axes | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | cut | infinitive | the drum | pieces | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent drum=Material into piece=Product | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | the men not said here | people | Inkang's house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to house=Destination |
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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