Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 53
Very soon, the seven witches were quite drunk, and lay down in the house which had been set apart for them, and went fast asleep.
Who acts: seven witches · What happens: be, lay down, set apart, go · To what, where: house
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 (seven witches), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 drunk | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 witches | det |
| 5 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 witches | nummod |
| 6 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 drunk | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 drunk | cop |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 drunk | advmod |
| 9 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lay | cc |
| 12 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 drunk | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 lay | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 set | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 set | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 set | aux:pass |
| 20 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 house | acl:relcl |
| 21 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 20 set | advmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 set | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 went | cc |
| 26 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lay | advcl |
| 27 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 went | advmod |
| 28 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 went | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 drunk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the seven witches | drunk, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | the seven witches not said here | the house | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in house=Destination | |||
| 3 | set apart | past · perfect · passive | the house | for witches = witch; apart property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient for they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the seven witches not said here | asleep, fast property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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