Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 57
When the house was burnt down, Ogbaja went inside to see that all the witches were dead, and counted the bodies, but could only find seven.
Who acts: Ogbaja, witches · What happens: burnt down, go, see, be, count, find · To what, where: house, bodies, seven · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ogbaja, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 burnt | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 house | det |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 burnt | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 burnt | aux:pass |
| 5 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 burnt | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | Ogbaja | Ogbaja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 burnt | conj |
| 10 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | xcomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 dead | mark |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 witches | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 witches | det |
| 16 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dead | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 dead | cop |
| 18 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 see | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 counted | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 counted | cc |
| 21 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bodies | det |
| 23 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 counted | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 find | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 find | cc |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 find | aux |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 find | advmod |
| 28 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 counted | advcl |
| 29 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 find | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 burnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt down | past · passive | the house | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | past | Ogbaja | inside property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Ogbaja not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | all witches | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | count | past | Ogbaja not said here | the bodies | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | ||||
| 6 | find | could | Ogbaja not said here | seven | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=Topic |
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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