Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 34
All the country people were very sorry, and a big play was held, and the mourning was kept up for a long time.
Who acts: country people · What happens: be, hold, keep up · To what, where: big play, mourning
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 (country people), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 people | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 3 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 people | compound |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sorry | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sorry | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 sorry | advmod |
| 7 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 held | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 held | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 play | det |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 play | amod |
| 12 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 held | aux:pass |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sorry | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kept | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 kept | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mourning | det |
| 18 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 kept | aux:pass |
| 20 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sorry | parataxis |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 kept | compound:prt |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 time | det |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 time | amod |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kept | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all country people | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | past · passive | a big play | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | keep up | past · passive | the mourning | time | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Theme |
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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