Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 62
He then called all the women together and held a big play, fired guns off in the town, rubbed Akoba with camwood, and told all people that she was his wife.
Who acts: Chief, Akoba · What happens: call, hold, fire, rub, tell, be · To what, where: women, big play, Akoba, people, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Chief, Akoba), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 called | advmod |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 women | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 women | det |
| 6 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 called | xcomp |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 held | cc |
| 9 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 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 | 9 held | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 guns | punct |
| 14 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 guns | amod |
| 15 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 play | appos |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 guns | compound:prt |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 town | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 town | det |
| 19 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 guns | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rubbed | punct |
| 21 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 22 | Akoba | Akoba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 rubbed | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 camwood | case |
| 24 | camwood | camwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rubbed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 told | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 told | cc |
| 27 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 people | det |
| 29 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 told | iobj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 wife | mark |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 wife | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 wife | cop |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 wife | nmod:poss |
| 34 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 told | ccomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Chief | all women | then | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | hold | past | Chief not said here | a big play | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fire | participle | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | rub | past | Chief not said here | Akoba | with camwood | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent akoba=Destination with camwood=Theme | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | Chief not said here | all people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | Akoba | Chief's wife | Chief nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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