Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 60
Ogbaja then called the people in with hoes, and they dug up the ground, but could not find the eighth body.
Who acts: Ogbaja, people · What happens: call in, dig up, not find · To what, where: people, ground, eighth 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 (Ogbaja, 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 | Ogbaja | Ogbaja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 called | advmod |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 called | compound:prt |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hoes | case |
| 8 | hoes | hoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dug | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dug | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dug | nsubj |
| 12 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 dug | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ground | det |
| 15 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dug | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 find | cc |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 find | advmod |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dug | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 body | det |
| 22 | eighth | eighth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 body | amod |
| 23 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in speech: assert | past | Ogbaja | the people | then | with hoes | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | ||
| 2 | dig up | past | people | the ground | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ground=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not find | could | people not said here | the eighth body | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=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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