Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 142
Ogor was next called, to the great astonishment of the eight boys who thought he was dead.
Who acts: eight boys, Ogor · What happens: call, think, be, astonish · To what, where: Ogor, eight boys · 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 (eight boys, 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 | Ogor | Ogor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 3 | next | next | ADV | _ | 4 called | advmod |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 astonishment | punct |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 astonishment | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 astonishment | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 astonishment | amod |
| 9 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 boys | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 boys | det |
| 12 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 boys | nummod |
| 13 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 astonishment | nmod |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 boys | acl:relcl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dead | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 dead | cop |
| 18 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | Ogor | the great astonishment of the eight boys xcomp; next property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the eight boys | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Ogor | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | astonish | the eight boys | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: of=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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