Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 36
Their bodies were placed in the bottom of the grave, and Chief Indoma’s body was put on top.
What happens: place, put · To what, where: bodies, bottom, body, top
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: 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 placed | aux:pass |
| 4 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bottom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bottom | det |
| 7 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 grave | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 grave | det |
| 10 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bottom | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 put | cc |
| 13 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 body | nmod:poss |
| 14 | Indoma | Indoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Chief | flat |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Chief | case |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 put | aux:pass |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 placed | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 top | case |
| 20 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | slaves's bodies | the bottom of the grave | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in bottom=Destination | ||||
| 2 | put | past · passive | Chief's body | top | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on top=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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