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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

detpunctdetconjaclcasenmod:posscaseoblpunctcaseoblexpladvclnsubjpunctacl:relcladvmodccconjmarknsubjauxcopadvmodccompcaseoblpunctrootThatDETnightNOUN,PUNCTtheDETboysNOUNbelongingVERBtoADPOgorPROPN’sPARTcompanyNOUN,PUNCTofADPwhomPRONtherePRONwereVERBeightNUM,PUNCTmetVERBtogetherADVandCCONJdecidedVERBthatSCONJOgorPROPNhadAUXbeenAUXveryADVrudeADJtoADPthemPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem2 nightdet
2nightnightNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
3,,PUNCT_2 nightpunct
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 boysdet
5boysboyNOUNNumber=Plur2 nightconj
6belongingbelongVERBVerbForm=Ger5 boysacl
7totoADP_10 companycase
8OgorOgorPROPNNumber=Sing10 companynmod:poss
9’s'sPART_8 Ogorcase
10companycompanyNOUNNumber=Sing6 belongingobl
11,,PUNCT_13 whompunct
12ofofADP_13 whomcase
13whomwhomPRONPronType=Rel6 belongingobl
14theretherePRONPronType=Dem15 wereexpl
15werebeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 metadvcl
16eighteightNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card15 werensubj
17,,PUNCT_18 metpunct
18metmeetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 whomacl:relcl
19togethertogetherADV_18 metadvmod
20andandCCONJ_21 decidedcc
21decideddecideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 metconj
22thatthatSCONJ_27 rudemark
23OgorOgorPROPNNumber=Sing27 rudensubj
24hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 rudeaux
25beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part27 rudecop
26veryveryADV_27 rudeadvmod
27ruderudeADJDegree=Pos21 decidedccomp
28totoADP_29 themcase
29themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs27 rudeobl
30..PUNCT_2 nightpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1belonggerundthe boys not said hereto Ogor's company; of the boysvn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2bepasteighttherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3meetpasttogether propertyvn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4decidepastvn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5ispast · perfectOgorboys = boyrude propertytree 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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