Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Iv.--how Elili of Inkum Died, and Was Brought Back to Life Again., sentence 90
As each dog placed its load of firewood on the ground, it dropped down dead.
Who acts: dog, house · What happens: place, drop down · To what, where: load, ground
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 (dog, house), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 placed | mark |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 dog | det |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | nsubj |
| 4 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dropped | advcl |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 load | nmod:poss |
| 6 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 firewood | case |
| 8 | firewood | firewood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 load | nmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 ground | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 placed | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dropped | nsubj |
| 14 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 dropped | compound:prt |
| 16 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dropped | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | each dog | house's load of firewood | the ground | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme on ground=Destination | |||
| 2 | drop down | past | house | dead property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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