Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 37
The head chief then ordered four young men to be caught alive and bound.
Who acts: head chief · What happens: order, catch · To what, where: four young men
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 (head 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chief | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chief | compound |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ordered | nsubj |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 ordered | advmod |
| 5 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 men | nummod |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 men | amod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ordered | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 caught | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 caught | aux:pass |
| 11 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ordered | ccomp |
| 12 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 caught | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bound | cc |
| 14 | bound | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 alive | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the head chief | four young men | then | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the head chief not said here | alive property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |
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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