Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Vii.--how Two Friends Fell Out: the Spider and the Grasshopper., sentence 62
The people then carried the meat back to the town and placed the horns in front of their ju-ju.
Who acts: people · What happens: carry back, place · To what, where: meat, town, horns, front
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: who acts (people), 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 | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 carried | advmod |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 meat | det |
| 6 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 carried | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 town | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 placed | cc |
| 12 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 carried | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horns | det |
| 14 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 placed | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 front | case |
| 16 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 placed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 ju | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ju | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ju | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 ju | punct |
| 21 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 front | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry back | past | the people | the meat | the town | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent meat=Theme to town=Destination | ||
| 2 | place | past | the people not said here | the horns | front of people's ju ju | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horn=Theme in front=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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