Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 26
After a short time had elapsed, Chief Awum consulted with Osode as to how they should get some more Enfitop boys to eat.
Who acts: Chief, boys · What happens: elapse, consult, get, eat · To what, where: short time, more Enfitop 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, 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 elapsed | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 elapsed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 elapsed | aux |
| 6 | elapsed | elapse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 consulted | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 elapsed | punct |
| 8 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 consulted | nsubj |
| 9 | Awum | Awum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Chief | flat |
| 10 | consulted | consult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Osode | case |
| 12 | Osode | Osode | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 consulted | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 get | mark |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 as | fixed |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 get | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 get | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 get | aux |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 consulted | advcl |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 boys | det |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 boys | amod |
| 21 | Enfitop | Enfitop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 boys | compound |
| 22 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 get | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 eat | mark |
| 24 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 boys | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 consulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elapse | past · perfect · passive | a short time | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | consult | past | Chief | with Osode | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with osode=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | get | should | boys = boy | some more Enfitop boys | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | boys = boy not said here | some more Enfitop boys not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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