Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 136
They bored holes in the leg bones, and took the marrow out.
Who acts: bones · What happens: bore, take out · To what, where: holes, leg bones, marrow
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 (bones), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bored | nsubj |
| 2 | bored | bore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bored | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bones | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bones | det |
| 6 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bones | compound |
| 7 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bored | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bored | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 marrow | det |
| 12 | marrow | marrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 took | compound:prt |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bore | past | bones = bone | holes | the leg bones | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hole=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | take out | past | bones = bone not said here | the marrow | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marrow=Theme |
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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