Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 24
In the olden days at Okuni, when the women were circumcised, they were kept in the fatting-house for a long time and given plenty of food to eat.
What happens: circumcise, keep, give, eat · To what, where: women, goats, fatting house, plenty
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 3. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 circumcised | obl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Okuni | case |
| 6 | Okuni | Okuni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 days | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 circumcised | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 circumcised | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 women | det |
| 10 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 circumcised | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 circumcised | aux:pass |
| 12 | circumcised | circumcise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 kept | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 kept | aux:pass |
| 16 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 circumcised | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 19 | fatting | fatting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 house | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 fatting | punct |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kept | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 time | det |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 time | amod |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kept | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 given | cc |
| 27 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 kept | conj |
| 28 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 given | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 food | case |
| 30 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 plenty | nmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 eat | mark |
| 32 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 plenty | acl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 circumcised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | circumcise | past · passive | the women | day | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | keep | past · passive | goats = goat | the fatting house | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in house=Location | |||
| 3 | give | participle | plenty of food | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Theme | |||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | plenty of food not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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