Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 24
This enraged the Inkum people, and the next day Chief Osode went to Enfitop and told them that, as they had refused to attend the play, they would not be members of the society any longer.
Who acts: This, Chief, people · What happens: enrage, go, tell, refuse, not attend, not be · To what, where: Inkum people, Enfitop, people, play, members · 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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 enraged | nsubj |
| 2 | enraged | enrage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 4 | Inkum | Inkum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 people | compound |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 enraged | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 9 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 12 | Osode | Osode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Chief | flat |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 enraged | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Enfitop | case |
| 15 | Enfitop | Enfitop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 told | cc |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 told | iobj |
| 19 | that | that | ADV | _ | 17 told | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 refused | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 refused | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 refused | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 refused | aux |
| 24 | refused | refuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 told | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 attend | mark |
| 26 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 refused | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 play | det |
| 28 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 attend | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 members | punct |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 members | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 members | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 members | advmod |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 members | cop |
| 34 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 enraged | advcl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 society | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 society | det |
| 37 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 members | nmod |
| 38 | any | any | ADV | _ | 39 longer | advmod |
| 39 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 34 members | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 enraged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enrage | past | This | the Inkum people | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus people=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Chief | Enfitop | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to enfitop=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Chief not said here | people | that property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||
| 4 | refuse | past · perfect | people | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not attend | to-infinitive | people not said here | the play | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme play=Goal | ||||
| 6 | not is a | would | people | members | of the society; long property | 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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