Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 4
When the houses were finished and their farms made, Chief Awum called a society to play, the name of the society being Eberambi.
Who acts: Chief · What happens: finish, make, call, play, be, name · To what, where: houses, farms, society, Eberambi · 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 (Chief), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 finished | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 houses | det |
| 3 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | aux:pass |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 called | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 farms | nmod:poss |
| 8 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 finished | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 finished | punct |
| 11 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | nsubj |
| 12 | Awum | Awum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Chief | flat |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 society | det |
| 15 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 play | mark |
| 17 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 society | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 name | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 name | det |
| 20 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 society | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 society | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 society | det |
| 23 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 name | nmod |
| 24 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 Eberambi | cop |
| 25 | Eberambi | Eberambi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 society | appos |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · passive | the houses | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | make | participle · passive | houses's farms | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 3 | call | past | Chief | a society and the name of the society | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent society=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | play | to-infinitive | Chief not said here | a society and the name of the society not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | gerund | Eberambi | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | name | the society | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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