Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 30
All the people agreed to this, so Keroho was killed and cut up, the meat being given to the bush cow to keep.
Who acts: people · What happens: agree, kill, cut up, give, keep · To what, where: Keroho, meat, bush cow
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell.. 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 people | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 agreed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 killed | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 killed | advmod |
| 9 | Keroho | Keroho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 killed | aux:pass |
| 11 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 agreed | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cut | cc |
| 13 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 killed | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 cut | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 given | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 meat | det |
| 17 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 given | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 given | aux:pass |
| 19 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 killed | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 cow | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cow | det |
| 22 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cow | compound |
| 23 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 given | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 keep | mark |
| 25 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 cow | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | all people | to this | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | kill | past · passive | Keroho | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cut up | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | give | gerund · passive | the meat | the bush cow | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to cow=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | keep | to-infinitive | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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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