Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 145
He also pointed out that the water ju-ju had threatened to seize all the people who went into the river if the boys were not properly punished.
Who acts: Chief, people · What happens: point out, threaten, seize, go, not punish · To what, where: water, people, river, boys
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, people), 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 | 3 pointed | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 pointed | advmod |
| 3 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 pointed | compound:prt |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 threatened | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 threatened | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | ju | ju | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 water | appos |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ju | punct |
| 10 | ju | ju | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 ju | flat |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 threatened | aux |
| 12 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pointed | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 seize | mark |
| 14 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 threatened | xcomp |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 people | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 seize | obj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 people | acl:relcl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 river | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 river | det |
| 22 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 punished | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 boys | det |
| 25 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 punished | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 punished | advmod |
| 28 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 29 punished | advmod |
| 29 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 went | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point out | past | Chief | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | threaten | past · perfect · passive | the water | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seize not said to happen | to-infinitive | all people | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | past | all people | the river | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into river=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | not punish a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | the boys | properly property | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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