Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 37
When the Enfitop people had completed their preparations for war, the head chief took one of his slaves to his ju-ju as a sacrifice, and the blood was sprinkled all round the ju-ju, the chiefs dancing in it.
Who acts: Enfitop people, head chief, chiefs, people · What happens: complete, take, sprinkle, dance, prepare · To what, where: preparations, one, ju ju, blood
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 people, head chief, chiefs, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 completed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 3 | Enfitop | Enfitop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 people | compound |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 completed | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 completed | aux |
| 6 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 preparations | nmod:poss |
| 8 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 completed | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 war | case |
| 10 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 preparations | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chief | det |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chief | compound |
| 14 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 preparations | acl:relcl |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 slaves | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 slaves | nmod:poss |
| 19 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 ju | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 ju | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ju | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 ju | punct |
| 24 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obl |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 sacrifice | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 sacrifice | det |
| 27 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sprinkled | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 sprinkled | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 blood | det |
| 31 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sprinkled | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 sprinkled | aux:pass |
| 33 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 took | conj |
| 34 | all | all | ADV | _ | 39 ju | advmod |
| 35 | round | round | ADP | _ | 39 ju | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 ju | det |
| 37 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 ju | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 ju | punct |
| 39 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sprinkled | advcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 chiefs | punct |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 chiefs | det |
| 42 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 ju | conj |
| 43 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 chiefs | acl |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 it | case |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 dancing | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 completed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complete | past · perfect | the Enfitop people | people's preparations | for war | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent preparation=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | take | past | the head chief | one of Chief's slaves | Chief's ju ju | as a sacrifice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme to ju=Destination | ||
| 3 | sprinkle | past · passive | the blood | the ju ju and the chiefs advcl | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dance | gerund | the chiefs not said here | blood | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location | ||||
| 5 | prepare | people | for war | nom preparation «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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