Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 69
The five cows which remained in the compound were also killed, and their heads were put in the grave.
Who acts: five cows · What happens: remain, kill, put · To what, where: compound, five cows, heads, grave
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 (five cows), 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 cows | det |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 cows | nummod |
| 3 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 remained | nsubj |
| 5 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cows | acl:relcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 compound | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 compound | det |
| 8 | compound | compound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remained | obl |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 killed | aux:pass |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 killed | advmod |
| 11 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 put | cc |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heads | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 put | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 put | aux:pass |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 killed | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 grave | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 grave | det |
| 20 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the five cows | the compound | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in compound=Location | ||||
| 2 | kill | past · passive | the five cows | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put | past · passive | cows's heads | the grave | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grave=Destination |
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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