Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 26
V.--CONCERNING THE HUMAN SACRIFICES WHICH TOOK PLACE ON THE DEATH OF CHIEF INDOMA.
Who acts: V., HUMAN SACRIFICES, CHIEF · What happens: concern, take, die · To what, where: HUMAN SACRIFICES, PLACE, DEATH
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 (V., HUMAN SACRIFICES, CHIEF), 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 | V. | V. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 CONCERNING | nsubj |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 V. | punct |
| 3 | CONCERNING | concern | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 SACRIFICES | det |
| 5 | HUMAN | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 SACRIFICES | amod |
| 6 | SACRIFICES | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 CONCERNING | obj |
| 7 | WHICH | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 TOOK | nsubj |
| 8 | TOOK | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 SACRIFICES | acl:relcl |
| 9 | PLACE | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 TOOK | obj |
| 10 | ON | on | ADP | _ | 12 DEATH | case |
| 11 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 DEATH | det |
| 12 | DEATH | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 TOOK | obl |
| 13 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 14 CHIEF | case |
| 14 | CHIEF | CHIEF | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 DEATH | nmod |
| 15 | INDOMA | INDOMA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 CHIEF | flat |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 CONCERNING | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | concern | gerund | V. | the HUMAN SACRIFICES | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sacrifice=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the HUMAN SACRIFICES | PLACE | the DEATH of CHIEF | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme on death=Destination | |||
| 3 | die | CHIEF | nom death «event 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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