Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 15

The head slave washed the wounds on his wife’s back, and put some mashed-up leaves on the sore places to stop the bleeding and heal the cuts.

Who acts: head slave · What happens: wash, put, mash, stop, heal · To what, where: wounds, up leaves, sore places, bleeding, cuts

This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head slave), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 slave	det
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slave	compound
3	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 washed	nsubj
4	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wounds	det
6	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 washed	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 wife	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ’s	obl
10	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 washed	conj
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 ’s	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 put	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 put	cc
14	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 ’s	parataxis
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 leaves	det
16	mashed	mash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 up	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 mashed	punct
18	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 leaves	compound
19	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 put	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 places	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 places	det
22	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 places	amod
23	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 put	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 stop	mark
25	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 put	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bleeding	det
27	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stop	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 heal	cc
29	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 stop	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 cuts	det
31	cuts	cut	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 heal	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 washed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wash	past	the head slave	the wounds		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Patient
2	put	infinitive		some up leaves	the sore places	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme on place=Destination
3	mash	participle				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	stop	to-infinitive		the bleeding		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality bleeding=Eventuality
5	heal	infinitive		the cuts		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cut=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 3, sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 15