Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 57
The grave was then filled in, whilst drums were being beaten and farewells to the chief’s son were being shouted by the people.
Who acts: people · What happens: fill in, beat, shout · To what, where: grave, drums, farewells
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 (people), 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 grave | det |
| 2 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 filled | aux:pass |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 filled | advmod |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 filled | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 beaten | punct |
| 8 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 12 beaten | mark |
| 9 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 beaten | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 beaten | aux:pass |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 beaten | aux:pass |
| 12 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 filled | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shouted | cc |
| 14 | farewells | farewell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 shouted | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 son | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chief | det |
| 17 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 chief | case |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 farewells | nmod |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 shouted | aux:pass |
| 21 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 shouted | aux:pass |
| 22 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 beaten | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 people | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 people | det |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 shouted | obl:agent |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill in | past · passive | the grave | then | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | beat | past · passive | drums | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | past · passive | the people | farewells to the chief's son | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
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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