Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 36
The chief should therefore make a sacrifice of a white cock and a goat to the ju-ju for his help.
Who acts: chief · What happens: make, sacrifice, help · To what, where: sacrifice, white cock
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 (chief), 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 | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 5 make | advmod |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sacrifice | det |
| 7 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cock | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cock | det |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cock | amod |
| 11 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sacrifice | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 goat | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 goat | det |
| 14 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cock | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 ju | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ju | det |
| 17 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ju | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 ju | punct |
| 19 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 help | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 help | nmod:poss |
| 22 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | should | the chief | a sacrifice of a white cock and a goat | to the ju ju; for Chief's help; therefore property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent sacrifice=Product for help=Asset | |||
| 2 | sacrifice | a white cock and a goat | nom sacrifice «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | help | Chief | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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