Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 111
She was found guilty, and was ordered to be killed as a sacrifice to the water ju-ju.
What happens: find, order, kill · To what, where: woman
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper.. 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | aux:pass |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 found | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ordered | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ordered | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ordered | aux:pass |
| 8 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 found | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 killed | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 killed | aux:pass |
| 11 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ordered | xcomp |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 sacrifice | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sacrifice | det |
| 14 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 killed | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 ju | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ju | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ju | compound |
| 18 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ju | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 ju | punct |
| 20 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 killed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | woman | guilty property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | order | past · passive | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | as a sacrifice; to the water ju ju | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: as sacrifice=Attribute |
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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