Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 143

He pointed them all out, and told the chiefs which of the boys had tied him up and those who had carried him and thrown him into the river.

Who acts: Ogor · What happens: point out, tell, tie up, carry, throw · To what, where: people, chiefs, Ogor, those, river · 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pointed	nsubj
2	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pointed	obj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 them	nmod:unmarked
5	out	out	ADV	_	2 pointed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pointed	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 chiefs	det
10	chiefs	chief	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 told	iobj
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 tied	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 boys	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boys	det
14	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 tied	obl
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tied	aux
16	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 told	ccomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tied	obj
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 tied	compound:prt
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 carried	cc
20	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 carried	nsubj:pass
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 carried	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 carried	aux
23	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 tied	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 carried	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 thrown	cc
26	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 carried	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 thrown	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 river	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 river	det
30	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 thrown	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pointed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	point out	past	Ogor	people		out property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	tell speech: assert	past	Ogor not said here		the chiefs		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent chief=Recipient clause=Topic
3	tie up	past · perfect		Ogor		of the boys; which obj	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent which=Patient he=Result
4	carry	past · perfect · passive		those		who nsubj:pass; Ogor obj	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Value
5	throw	participle		Ogor		into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into river=Result

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg70959/7/143/

🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 143

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 143