Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 65
When the pot was red-hot, it was taken out of the fire and placed over the cripple’s shoulders.
Who acts: pot · What happens: be, take out, place · To what, where: it, fire, shoulders
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 (pot), 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 | _ | 7 hot | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pot | det |
| 3 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hot | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hot | cop |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hot | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 red | punct |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 taken | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hot | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | aux:pass |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 fire | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 fire | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fire | det |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 placed | cc |
| 17 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 taken | conj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 shoulders | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cripple | det |
| 20 | cripple | cripple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 cripple | case |
| 22 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 placed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the pot | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take out | past · passive | it | the fire | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | place | participle | the cripple's shoulders | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent over shoulder=Destination |
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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