Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 56
The bodies of the ten men were then put in the grave, and the bundle representing the dead Ode was placed on top.
Who acts: bundle · What happens: put, represent, place · To what, where: bodies, grave, dead Ode, bundle, top
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: who acts (bundle), 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 bodies | det |
| 2 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 put | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 men | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 men | det |
| 5 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 men | nummod |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bodies | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | aux:pass |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 put | advmod |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 grave | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 grave | det |
| 12 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 placed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 placed | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bundle | det |
| 16 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | representing | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 bundle | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Ode | det |
| 19 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Ode | amod |
| 20 | Ode | Ode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 representing | obj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 placed | aux:pass |
| 22 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 put | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 top | case |
| 24 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 placed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | the bodies of the ten men | the grave | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in grave=Destination | |||
| 2 | represent | gerund | the bundle not said here | the dead Ode | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ode=Theme | ||||
| 3 | place | past · passive | the bundle | top | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on top=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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