Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 89

In consequence of his cruel treatment of them, all his slaves hated Chief Erim, and although they were much in fear of their master they often planned to kill him.

Who acts: slaves, crow · What happens: hate, be, plan, kill, treat · To what, where: Chief Erim, consequence, fear, crow, camwood

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slaves, crow), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 consequence	case
2	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hated	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 treatment	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 treatment	nmod:poss
5	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 treatment	amod
6	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 consequence	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 treatment	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 consequence	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 slaves	det:predet
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 slaves	nmod:poss
12	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hated	nsubj
13	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Erim	compound
15	Erim	Erim	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 hated	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 planned	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 planned	cc
18	although	although	SCONJ	_	23 fear	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fear	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fear	cop
21	much	much	ADV	_	23 fear	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 fear	case
23	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 planned	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 master	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 master	nmod:poss
26	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fear	nmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 planned	nsubj
28	often	often	ADV	_	29 planned	advmod
29	planned	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hated	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 kill	mark
31	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 planned	xcomp
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 kill	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 hated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hate	past	crow's slaves	Chief Erim	consequence of crow's cruel treatment of camwood		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer erim=Stimulus
2	is	past	SLAVES = slave		fear	of SLAVES's master	tree rules
3	plan	past	SLAVES = slave			often property	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	SLAVES = slave not said here	crow			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	treat		crow	camwood			nom treatment «act transitive»: poss=agent of=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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 89

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 2, sentence 89