Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 113
That night, the boys belonging to Ogor’s company, of whom there were eight, met together and decided that Ogor had been very rude to them.
Who acts: boys, eight, Ogor · What happens: belong, be, meet, decide · To what, where: boys, night · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (boys, eight, Ogor), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boys | det |
| 5 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 night | conj |
| 6 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 boys | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 company | case |
| 8 | Ogor | Ogor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 company | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Ogor | case |
| 10 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 belonging | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 whom | punct |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 whom | case |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 belonging | obl |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 were | expl |
| 15 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 met | advcl |
| 16 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 were | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 met | punct |
| 18 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 whom | acl:relcl |
| 19 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 met | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 decided | cc |
| 21 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 met | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 rude | mark |
| 23 | Ogor | Ogor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 rude | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 rude | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 rude | cop |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 rude | advmod |
| 27 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 decided | ccomp |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 rude | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | gerund | the boys not said here | to Ogor's company; of the boys | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | eight | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | together property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | decide | past | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | past · perfect | Ogor | boys = boy | rude property | tree rules |
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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