Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 51
When the day of the feast arrived, the seven evil men carried the cripple to the town, and at once began to eat as much as they could, and drank large quantities of the strong tombo.
Who acts: day, seven evil men · What happens: arrive, carry, begin, eat, drink · To what, where: cripple, town, much, large quantities
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 (day, seven evil 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 feast | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 feast | det |
| 6 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 7 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 carried | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrived | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 men | det |
| 10 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 men | nummod |
| 11 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 men | amod |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 carried | nsubj |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cripple | det |
| 15 | cripple | cripple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 town | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 town | det |
| 18 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 began | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 began | cc |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 once | case |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 began | obl |
| 23 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 carried | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 eat | mark |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 began | xcomp |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 much | advmod |
| 27 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 eat | obj |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 could | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 could | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 much | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 drank | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 drank | cc |
| 33 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 carried | conj |
| 34 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 quantities | amod |
| 35 | quantities | quantity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 drank | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 tombo | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 tombo | det |
| 38 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 tombo | amod |
| 39 | tombo | tombo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 quantities | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the day of the feast | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | carry | past | the seven evil men | the cripple | the town | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cripple=Theme to town=Destination | |||
| 3 | begin | past | the seven evil men not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | the seven evil men not said here | much | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 5 | drink | past | the seven evil men not said here | large quantities of the strong tombo | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=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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