Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover., sentence 131
When the people took the chief’s body into the back-yard to wash it, they found that a certain part of his body had been cut off.
Who acts: people · What happens: take, wash, find, cut off · To what, where: body, certain part · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxiii.--why Edidor Killed Her Husband and Her Lover.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 found | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chief | det |
| 6 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 body | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 chief | case |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 yard | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 yard | det |
| 11 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 yard | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 back | punct |
| 13 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 wash | mark |
| 15 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wash | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 found | nsubj |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 cut | mark |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 part | det |
| 22 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 part | amod |
| 23 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 body | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 body | nmod:poss |
| 26 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 part | nmod |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 cut | aux |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 cut | aux:pass |
| 29 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 found | ccomp |
| 30 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 cut | compound:prt |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the people | the chief's body | into the back yard | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme into yard=Destination | |||
| 2 | wash | to-infinitive | the people not said here | body | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find | past | people | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cut off | past · perfect · passive | a certain part of chief's body | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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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