Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 135
After the body of the drum had been eaten up, the bones were preserved.
What happens: eat up, preserve · To what, where: bones
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: 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 body | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 body | det |
| 3 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eaten | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 drum | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 drum | det |
| 6 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 body | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 eaten | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 eaten | aux:pass |
| 9 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 eaten | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 preserved | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bones | det |
| 13 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 preserved | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 preserved | aux:pass |
| 15 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 eaten | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat up | past · perfect · passive | after the body of the drum | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 2 | preserve | past · passive | the bones | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
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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