Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 38
The body was then cut up and divided amongst the fighting men, who eat it.
Who acts: fighting men · What happens: cut up, divide, eat · To what, where: body
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 (fighting men), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 body | det |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cut | aux:pass |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 cut | advmod |
| 5 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 cut | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 divided | cc |
| 8 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cut | conj |
| 9 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 12 men | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 men | det |
| 11 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 men | compound |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 divided | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eat | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 eat | nsubj |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 men | acl:relcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 eat | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut up | past · passive | the body | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | divide | participle | amongst the fighting men | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | eat | present | the fighting men | body | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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