Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 28
It was he who led the Inkum people to the site of their present town when they were driven out of their own country by the Awalas.
Who acts: PLACE, Awalas · What happens: be, drive out · To what, where: people, own country
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 (PLACE, Awalas), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 led | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 led | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 led | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 led | nsubj |
| 5 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 people | det |
| 7 | Inkum | Inkum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 people | compound |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 led | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 site | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 site | det |
| 11 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 town | nmod:poss |
| 14 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 town | amod |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 site | nmod |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 driven | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 driven | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 driven | aux:pass |
| 19 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 led | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 country | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 country | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 country | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 country | amod |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 driven | obl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 Awalas | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Awalas | det |
| 27 | Awalas | Awalas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 driven | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | PLACE | to the site of people's present town; Chief nsubj; who nsubj; the Inkum people obj; lead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drive out | past · passive | the Awalas | people | people's own country | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme country=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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