Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 18
Nagor was made to do all the hard work of the house, and was also half starved.
Who acts: Nagor, house · What happens: make, do, starve, work · To what, where: Nagor, hard work
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nagor, house), 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 | Nagor | Nagor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | xcomp |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 work | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 work | det |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 work | amod |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 work | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 starved | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 starved | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 starved | aux:pass |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 starved | advmod |
| 17 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 18 starved | advmod |
| 18 | starved | starve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 made | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | Nagor | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | Nagor not said here | all hard work of the house | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | starve | past · passive | half property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | work | the house | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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