Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxv.--how Two Bendega Young Men Changed Their Skins., part 3, sentence 8
When all the women slaves had brought their camwood, the chief told the head slave to count the cakes as usual.
Who acts: chief · What happens: bring, tell, count · To what, where: women slaves, head slave, cakes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (chief), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 7 brought | mark |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 slaves | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 slaves | det |
| 4 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 slaves | compound |
| 5 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | aux |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 told | advcl |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 camwood | nmod:poss |
| 9 | camwood | camwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chief | det |
| 12 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | nsubj |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 slave | det |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slave | compound |
| 16 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | iobj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 count | mark |
| 18 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 told | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cakes | det |
| 20 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 count | obj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 usual | case |
| 22 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 count | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · perfect · passive | all women slaves | slaves's camwood obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination camwood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the chief | the head slave | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent slave=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | count not said to happen | to-infinitive | the cakes | as usual | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cake=Theme as usual=Attribute |
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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