Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 29
She was killed at once, and they cut the body up and divided it and took it home to eat.
Who acts: others · What happens: kill, cut up, divide, take, eat · To what, where: Nara, body
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 (others), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | aux:pass |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 killed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cut | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cut | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cut | nsubj |
| 9 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 killed | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 body | det |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cut | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 cut | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 divided | cc |
| 14 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cut | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 divided | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cut | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 took | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 eat | mark |
| 21 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 took | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | Nara | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cut up | past | others = other | the body | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset body=Product | ||||
| 3 | divide | past | others = other not said here | body | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | others = other not said here | body | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | others = other not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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