Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 6
When the two sons had grown up, the slaves made a plan to kill Chief Erim, whom they hated so much.
Who acts: two sons, slaves · What happens: grow up, make, kill, hate · To what, where: plan, Chief
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 (two sons, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 grown | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sons | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 sons | nummod |
| 4 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grown | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 grown | aux |
| 6 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 made | obl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 grown | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 slaves | det |
| 10 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 plan | det |
| 13 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 kill | mark |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 plan | acl |
| 16 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 kill | obj |
| 17 | Erim | Erim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Chief | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hated | punct |
| 19 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 hated | obj |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hated | nsubj |
| 21 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Chief | acl:relcl |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 much | advmod |
| 23 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 hated | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past · perfect | the two sons | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make | past | the slaves | a plan | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plan=Product | ||||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | the slaves not said here | Chief | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chief=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hate | past | slaves = slave | Chief | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
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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