Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 29

When they had all gone, the Inkum men went very quietly into the town from house to house, and stole all the children they could find and carried them off.

Who acts: Inkum men, children · What happens: go, steal, find, carry off · To what, where: town, children · 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 (Inkum men, children), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 gone	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 gone	advmod
5	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 find	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 men	det
8	Inkum	Inkum	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 men	compound
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	conj
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 quietly	advmod
12	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 town	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 town	det
15	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 house	case
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 town	nmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 house	case
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 house	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stole	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stole	cc
22	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 find	advcl
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 children	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 children	det
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 stole	obj
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 find	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 find	aux
28	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 carried	cc
30	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 find	ccomp
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 carried	obj
32	off	off	ADP	_	30 carried	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the Inkum men		the town from house to house	quietly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location
2	steal	past	children = child not said here	all children			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location child=Theme
3	find	could	children = child				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	carry off	past		children = child			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 29