Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 2
The Enfitop people eventually agreed to do this, and Chief Awum built his town, which he called Aliese, and appointed a man called Osode to be his second chief.
Who acts: Enfitop people, Chief · What happens: agree, do, build, call, appoint, be · To what, where: this, town, man, second chief · 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 (Enfitop people, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 2 | Enfitop | Enfitop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 people | compound |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | eventually | eventually | ADV | _ | 5 agreed | advmod |
| 5 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 agreed | xcomp |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 built | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 built | cc |
| 11 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 built | nsubj |
| 12 | Awum | Awum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Chief | flat |
| 13 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 agreed | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 town | nmod:poss |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 built | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 called | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 called | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 called | nsubj |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 town | acl:relcl |
| 20 | Aliese | Aliese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 called | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 appointed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 appointed | cc |
| 23 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 built | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 appointed | obj |
| 26 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 man | acl |
| 27 | Osode | Osode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 called | xcomp |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 chief | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 chief | cop |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 chief | nmod:poss |
| 31 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 32 chief | amod |
| 32 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 called | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the Enfitop people | eventually property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Enfitop people not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | build | past | Chief | Chief's town | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Product | ||||
| 4 | call | past | Chief | Chief's town | Aliese xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient | |||
| 5 | appoint | past | Chief not said here | a man | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 6 | call | participle | a man not said here | Osode xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is a | to-infinitive | Chief's second chief | Chief nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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