Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 23
Instead of doing as she was told, Nagor threw her mother’s head amongst the young palm oil trees.
Who acts: Nagor · What happens: do, tell, throw · To what, where: Nagor, head, young oil trees · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 3 doing | mark |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Instead | fixed |
| 3 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 threw | advcl |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 told | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux:pass |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 doing | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 doing | punct |
| 9 | Nagor | Nagor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 threw | nsubj |
| 10 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 mother | case |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 threw | obj |
| 15 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 20 trees | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 trees | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 trees | amod |
| 18 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 oil | compound |
| 19 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 trees | compound |
| 20 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 threw | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | gerund | Nagor not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | Nagor | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | throw | past | Nagor | Nagor's mother's head | the young oil trees | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent head=Theme amongst tree=Destination |
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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