Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 22
On the sixth night, however, the Enfitop boys met together, and counted their numbers.
Who acts: Enfitop boys · What happens: meet, count · To what, where: numbers
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 boys), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 night | det |
| 3 | sixth | sixth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 night | amod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 met | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 night | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 11 met | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boys | det |
| 9 | Enfitop | Enfitop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 boys | compound |
| 10 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 met | nsubj |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 met | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 counted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 counted | cc |
| 15 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 met | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 numbers | nmod:poss |
| 17 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 counted | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the Enfitop boys | night | however, together property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | count | past | the Enfitop boys not said here | boys's numbers | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme |
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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