Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 30
They did not take any of the old people as they were not much good for food.
Who acts: children · What happens: not take, not be · To what, where: any
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 take | advmod |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 people | amod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 any | nmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 good | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 good | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 good | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 good | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 good | advmod |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 take | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 food | case |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 good | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | past · do-support | children = child | any of the old people | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | children = child | for food; good 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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