Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2, sentence 53
The skins were pegged out on the ground, and covered with wood ashes.
What happens: peg out, cover · To what, where: skins
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 2 skins | det |
| 2 | skins | skin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pegged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pegged | aux:pass |
| 4 | pegged | peg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 pegged | compound:prt |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pegged | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 covered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 covered | cc |
| 11 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pegged | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 ashes | case |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ashes | compound |
| 14 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 covered | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pegged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peg out | past · passive | the skins | on the ground | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient on ground=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | with wood ashes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ash=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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