Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xix.--why the Mist Rises From the Water., sentence 9
Just at that time there were eight wicked people who had been driven out of the town.
Who acts: eight wicked people · What happens: be, drive out · To what, where: eight wicked people, town
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 (eight wicked 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 were | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 were | expl |
| 6 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 people | nummod |
| 8 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 people | amod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 were | nsubj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 driven | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 driven | aux:pass |
| 13 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 people | acl:relcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 town | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 town | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 town | det |
| 17 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 driven | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | eight wicked people | there | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | drive out | past · perfect · passive | eight wicked people | the town | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme town=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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