Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 118
Ogor was then put on his back and securely fastened to the stone with the tie-tie.
What happens: put, fasten · To what, where: Ogor, back
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: 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 | Ogor | Ogor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux:pass |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 put | advmod |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 back | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 back | nmod:poss |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fastened | cc |
| 9 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 10 fastened | advmod |
| 10 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 put | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 stone | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stone | det |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fastened | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 tie | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tie | det |
| 16 | tie | tie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tie | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 tie | punct |
| 18 | tie | tie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stone | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | Ogor | Ogor's back | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 2 | fasten | participle | to the stone with the tie tie; securely property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to stone=Co-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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