Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 21
Nagor then took the head and placed it in the same room where Oga had put her mother Elili.
Who acts: Nagor · What happens: take, place, put · To what, where: head, same room, Oga
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), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 head | det |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 placed | cc |
| 7 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 placed | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 room | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 room | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 room | amod |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 placed | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 put | advmod |
| 14 | Oga | Oga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 put | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 put | aux |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 room | acl:relcl |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obj |
| 19 | Elili | Elili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 mother | appos |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Nagor | the head | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 2 | place | past | Nagor not said here | head | the same room | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in room=Destination | |||
| 3 | put | past · perfect · passive | Oga | Nagor's mother obj | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset mother=Goal |
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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