Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong., sentence 49
When he had revenged himself sufficiently he returned to the town, and the people told him that he smelt very badly of dead bodies.
Who acts: head, people · What happens: revenge, return, tell, smelt · To what, where: head · 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 (head, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 revenged | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 revenged | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 revenged | aux |
| 4 | revenged | revenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 returned | advcl |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 revenged | obj |
| 6 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 4 revenged | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 returned | nsubj |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 told | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 told | nsubj |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 returned | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 smelt | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 smelt | nsubj |
| 20 | smelt | smelt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 told | ccomp |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 badly | advmod |
| 22 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 smelt | advmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 bodies | case |
| 24 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bodies | amod |
| 25 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 smelt | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | revenge | past · perfect | head | head | sufficiently property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | return | past | head | to the town result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the people | head | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | smelt | past | head | of dead bodies; badly property | tree rules |
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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