Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 55
A deep grave was then dug, and ten men were killed to accompany the Chief’s son to the spirit-land.
What happens: dig, kill, accompany · To what, where: deep grave, ten men, son, spirit land
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 grave | det |
| 2 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grave | amod |
| 3 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dug | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dug | aux:pass |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 dug | advmod |
| 6 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 killed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 killed | cc |
| 9 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 men | nummod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 killed | aux:pass |
| 12 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dug | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 accompany | mark |
| 14 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 killed | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Chief | det |
| 16 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Chief | case |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 accompany | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 land | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 land | det |
| 21 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 land | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 spirit | punct |
| 23 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 accompany | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | past · passive | a deep grave | then | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | past · passive | ten men | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | accompany | to-infinitive | the Chief's son | the spirit land | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme to land=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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