Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 48
The slaves then discussed the best way to kill Oga Erim.
Who acts: slaves · What happens: discuss, kill · To what, where: best way, Oga
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 (slaves), 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 slaves | det |
| 2 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 discussed | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 discussed | advmod |
| 4 | discussed | discuss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 discussed | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 kill | mark |
| 9 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 way | acl |
| 10 | Oga | Oga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 kill | obj |
| 11 | Erim | Erim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Oga | flat |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 discussed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discuss speech: other | past | the slaves | the best way | then | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | |||
| 2 | kill | to-infinitive | the slaves not said here | Oga | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oga=Theme |
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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