Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1, sentence 53
When the food was finished the ju-ju man tied one of the young green shoots from the palm-tree round each of the members of the society.
Who acts: ju man · What happens: finish, tie · To what, where: food, one
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ju man), 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 | 5 finished | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 food | det |
| 3 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | aux:pass |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 tied | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 7 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ju | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ju | punct |
| 9 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 man | compound |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tied | nsubj |
| 11 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 tied | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 shoots | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shoots | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shoots | amod |
| 16 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 shoots | amod |
| 17 | shoots | shoot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 tree | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 20 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tree | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 palm | punct |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shoots | nmod |
| 23 | round | round | ADP | _ | 24 each | case |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 tree | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 members | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 members | det |
| 27 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 each | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 society | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 society | det |
| 30 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 members | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · passive | the food | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | tie | past | the ju man | one of the young green shoots from the palm tree round each of the members of the society | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
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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