Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 13

A meeting of the members was called for the next evening, and the chief told his young men to sit all round the rock.

Who acts: chief · What happens: call, tell, sit · To what, where: meeting, young men, rock · 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 (chief), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 meeting	det
2	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 members	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 members	det
5	members	member	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 meeting	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 called	aux:pass
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 evening	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 evening	det
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 evening	amod
11	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 called	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 chief	det
15	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	nsubj
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 called	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 men	nmod:poss
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 men	amod
19	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 told	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 sit	mark
21	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 told	xcomp
22	all	all	ADV	_	25 rock	advmod
23	round	round	ADP	_	25 rock	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 rock	det
25	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sit	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	call	past · passive		a meeting of the members		evening	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past	the chief		Chief's young men		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
3	sit not said to happen	to-infinitive	the chief not said here	the rock			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rock=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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 13