Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 11

There was a big rock in the middle, and the members all began working on the ground, and after a few days had it quite clear.

Who acts: big rock, members, few days · What happens: be, begin, work, have · To what, where: rock

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 (big rock, members, few days), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rock	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rock	amod
5	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 middle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 middle	det
8	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rock	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 members	det
12	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 began	nsubj
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 began	advmod
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
15	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 began	xcomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 ground	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ground	det
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 working	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
21	after	after	ADP	_	24 days	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 days	det
23	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 days	amod
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 began	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	obj
27	quite	quite	ADV	_	28 clear	advmod
28	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 had	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a big rock in the middle		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	the members			all property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	work	gerund	the members not said here			on the ground	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on ground=Theme
4	have	past	a few days	rock		clear property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 11