Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 57
The head slave then went to the body of Oga Erim and got the keys of the houses where all the rods and other valuables were kept.
Who acts: head slave · What happens: go, get, keep · To what, where: body, keys, rods
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 | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 went | advmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 body | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 body | det |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Oga | case |
| 10 | Oga | Oga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 body | nmod |
| 11 | Erim | Erim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Oga | flat |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 got | cc |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 keys | det |
| 15 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 got | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 houses | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 houses | det |
| 18 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 keys | nmod |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 kept | advmod |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 rods | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rods | det |
| 22 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 valuables | cc |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 valuables | amod |
| 25 | valuables | valuable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 rods | conj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 kept | aux:pass |
| 27 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 houses | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the head slave | the body of Oga | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to body=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | get | past | the head slave not said here | the keys of the houses | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer key=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | keep | past · passive | all rods and other valuables | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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