Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 60
After this the head slave divided up the cows, goats, sheep, pigs and fowls between them all, but he left five cows in the compound so that the funeral might be properly kept.
Who acts: Oga · What happens: divide up, fowl, leave, keep · To what, where: five cows, compound, funeral
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 (Oga), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 slave | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 slave | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 slave | det |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slave | compound |
| 5 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cows | amod |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 divided | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cows | det |
| 9 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 slave | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 goats | punct |
| 11 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cows | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sheep | punct |
| 13 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cows | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pigs | punct |
| 15 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cows | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fowls | cc |
| 17 | fowls | fowl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cows | conj |
| 18 | between | between | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fowls | obl |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 left | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 left | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 left | nsubj |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 slave | conj |
| 25 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 cows | nummod |
| 26 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 left | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 compound | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 compound | det |
| 29 | compound | compound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 left | obl |
| 30 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 37 kept | mark |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 so | fixed |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 funeral | det |
| 33 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 kept | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 kept | aux:pass |
| 36 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 37 kept | advmod |
| 37 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 left | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide up | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | fowl | present | between slaves = slave | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | leave | past | Oga | five cows | the compound | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cow=Theme in compound=Location | |||
| 4 | keep | might · passive | the funeral | properly property | 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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