Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 101
They then wrapped the dead body up in mats, and made a hole in a room at the back of the house, where they buried the corpse.
Who acts: children · What happens: wrap up, make, bury · To what, where: dead body, mats, hole, room, corpse
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wrapped | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 wrapped | advmod |
| 3 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 body | det |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 body | amod |
| 6 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrapped | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 wrapped | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mats | case |
| 9 | mats | mat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 wrapped | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 made | cc |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrapped | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hole | det |
| 14 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 room | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 room | det |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hole | nmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 back | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 back | det |
| 20 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 house | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 back | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 buried | punct |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 buried | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 buried | nsubj |
| 27 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 corpse | det |
| 29 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 buried | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap up | past | children = child | the dead body | mats | then | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme in mat=Destination | ||
| 2 | make | past | a hole | a room | at the back of the house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | |||
| 3 | bury | past | children = child | the corpse | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corpse=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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