Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong., sentence 40

The next day one of the chief’s slaves died, and when the people were going to bury the body, the goat, observing that they wrapped it up in plaintain leaves, at once said, “In my country, when anyone dies, they are wrapped up in sleeping-mats.”

Who acts: one, people, anyone · What happens: die, go, bury, observe, wrap up, say · To what, where: body, chief, plaintain leaves, people, sleeping mats · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, people, anyone), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 one	obl:unmarked
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 died	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 slaves	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chief	det
7	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slaves	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 chief	case
9	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 died	nsubj
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 going	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 going	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 going	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 going	aux
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 died	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 bury	mark
19	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 going	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 body	det
21	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bury	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 goat	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 goat	det
24	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 body	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 observing	punct
26	observing	observe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 going	parataxis
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 wrapped	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wrapped	nsubj
29	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 observing	advcl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wrapped	obj
31	up	up	ADP	_	29 wrapped	compound:prt
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 leaves	case
33	plaintain	plaintain	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 leaves	compound
34	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 wrapped	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 said	punct
36	at	at	SCONJ	_	38 said	mark
37	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	38 said	advmod
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 wrapped	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 country	punct
40	“	"	PUNCT	_	43 country	punct
41	In	in	ADP	_	43 country	case
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 country	nmod:poss
43	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 said	ccomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 dies	punct
45	when	when	SCONJ	_	47 dies	mark
46	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	47 dies	nsubj
47	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 country	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 wrapped	punct
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 wrapped	nsubj:pass
50	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 wrapped	aux:pass
51	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 died	conj
52	up	up	ADP	_	51 wrapped	compound:prt
53	in	in	ADP	_	56 mats	case
54	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 mats	compound
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 sleeping	punct
56	mats	mat	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 wrapped	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 died	punct
58	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	die	past	one the next day			the chief's slaves nsubj	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	go	past · progressive	the people				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bury	to-infinitive	the people not said here	the body and the goat			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme
4	observe	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	wrap up	past	people	chief	plaintain leaves		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in leaf=Destination
6	say speech: assert	past				my country ccomp; once property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	die in a quote	present	anyone				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	wrap up in a quote	present · passive		people	sleeping mats		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in mat=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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Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong., sentence 40