Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxxi.--chief Kekong’s Daughter ’ndere Who Married a Python., part 3, sentence 58
Several goats were killed, and a big feast was held, and the chief commanded all people to mourn for one year.
Who acts: chief · What happens: kill, hold, command, mourn · To what, where: Several goats, big feast, people · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (chief), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 goats | amod |
| 2 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 killed | aux:pass |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 held | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 held | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 feast | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feast | amod |
| 9 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 held | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 held | aux:pass |
| 11 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 killed | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 commanded | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 commanded | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chief | det |
| 15 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 commanded | nsubj |
| 16 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 killed | conj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 people | det |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 commanded | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 mourn | mark |
| 20 | mourn | mourn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 commanded | advcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 year | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 year | nummod |
| 23 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mourn | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · passive | Several goats | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hold | past · passive | a big feast | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | command | past | the chief | all people | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mourn | to-infinitive | the chief not said here | year | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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