Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 63
They then dragged the cripple down to the waterside, where they made a large fire, and put the water-pot into it.
Who acts: people · What happens: drag down, make, put · To what, where: cripple, waterside, large fire, water pot, pot
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dragged | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 dragged | advmod |
| 3 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cripple | det |
| 5 | cripple | cripple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dragged | obj |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 dragged | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 waterside | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 waterside | det |
| 9 | waterside | waterside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dragged | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 made | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | nsubj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 waterside | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fire | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fire | amod |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 put | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 put | cc |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dragged | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pot | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pot | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 water | punct |
| 23 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 put | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag down | past | people | the cripple | the waterside | then | down property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cripple=Theme to waterside=Destination | |
| 2 | make | past | people | a large fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | people not said here | the water pot | pot | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pot=Goal |
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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