Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 58

When the drum was beaten, the people assembled as usual, and discussed amongst themselves to whom the meat of the tortoise should be given when he was killed.

Who acts: people · What happens: beat, assemble, discuss, give, kill · To what, where: drum, meat, tortoise

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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 beaten	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 drum	det
3	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beaten	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 beaten	aux:pass
5	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 assembled	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 assembled	nsubj
9	assembled	assemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 beaten	parataxis
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 usual	case
11	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 assembled	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 discussed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 discussed	cc
14	discussed	discuss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 assembled	conj
15	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	16 themselves	case
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 discussed	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 whom	case
18	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 discussed	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 meat	det
20	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 given	nsubj:pass
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 tortoise	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tortoise	det
23	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 meat	nmod
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 given	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 given	aux:pass
26	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 whom	acl:relcl
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 killed	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 killed	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 killed	aux:pass
30	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 given	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 beaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	beat	past · passive		the drum		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	assemble	past	the people		as usual	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	discuss speech: other	past	the people not said here		amongst people; whom obl	vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	give	should · passive		the meat of the tortoise		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	kill	past · passive		tortoise		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 58

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ii.--the Cunning Hare; Or, Why the Tortoise Has a Patched Shell., sentence 58