Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 18
The body was then cut up into small pieces and divided amongst the members of the society, who lit fires and cooked and eat their portions.
Who acts: society · What happens: cut up, divide, light, cook, eat · To what, where: body, small pieces, fires, portions
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 (society), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 body | det |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cut | aux:pass |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 cut | advmod |
| 5 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 cut | compound:prt |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 pieces | case |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pieces | amod |
| 9 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cut | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 divided | cc |
| 11 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cut | conj |
| 12 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 14 members | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 members | det |
| 14 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 divided | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 society | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 society | det |
| 17 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 members | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lit | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 lit | nsubj |
| 20 | lit | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 society | acl:relcl |
| 21 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lit | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cooked | cc |
| 23 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cut | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 eat | cc |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 cooked | conj |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 portions | nmod:poss |
| 27 | portions | portion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 eat | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut up | past · passive | the body | small pieces | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into piece=Product | |||
| 2 | divide | participle | amongst the members of the society | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | light | past | the society | fires | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | ||||
| 4 | cook | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | eat | present | fires's portions | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=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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