Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 44
Cows would then be killed and goats, and all the people of the country, including the witches, would be invited to attend the feast which would be given in honour of the chief’s dead wife.
Who acts: people · What happens: kill, invite, attend, give, honour · To what, where: Cows, people, feast, honour, dead wife
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), 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 | Cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 killed | aux |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 killed | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 killed | aux:pass |
| 5 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 goats | cc |
| 7 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 killed | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 invited | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 invited | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 people | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 people | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 witches | punct |
| 17 | including | including | ADP | _ | 19 witches | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 witches | det |
| 19 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 country | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 people | punct |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 invited | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 invited | aux:pass |
| 23 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 killed | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 attend | mark |
| 25 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 invited | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 feast | det |
| 27 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 attend | obj |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 given | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 given | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 given | aux:pass |
| 31 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 feast | acl:relcl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 honour | case |
| 33 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 given | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 wife | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 chief | det |
| 36 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 wife | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 chief | case |
| 38 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 wife | amod |
| 39 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 honour | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | would · passive | Cows | then | goats conj | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | invite | would · passive | all people of the country and the witches | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | attend not said to happen | to-infinitive | all people of the country and the witches not said here | the feast | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme feast=Goal | ||||
| 4 | give | would · passive | the feast | honour of the chief's dead wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | honour | the chief's dead wife | nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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