Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine., sentence 3
All the people were very jealous of the parrot in consequence, and wanted to kill him and all his family.
Who acts: people, family · What happens: be, want, kill · To what, where: family, plenty
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxii.--a Story of the Great Famine.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, family), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 people | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 jealous | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 jealous | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 jealous | advmod |
| 6 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 parrot | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 parrot | det |
| 9 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jealous | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 consequence | case |
| 11 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 parrot | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wanted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wanted | cc |
| 14 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 jealous | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 kill | mark |
| 16 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wanted | xcomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 kill | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 all | cc |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 family | det:predet |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 family | nmod:poss |
| 21 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wanted | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 jealous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all people | of the parrot in consequence; jealous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | past | plenty's family | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | plenty's family not said here | plenty | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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