Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 44
I will also bring the prisoners we capture and kill them before you as a sacrifice.”
Who acts: I, we · What happens: bring, capture, kill · To what, where: prisoners
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 (I, we), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 bring | advmod |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prisoners | det |
| 6 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bring | obj |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 capture | nsubj |
| 8 | capture | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 prisoners | acl:relcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kill | cc |
| 10 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kill | obj |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 kill | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 sacrifice | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sacrifice | det |
| 16 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kill | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | future | I | the prisoners | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent prisoner=Theme | ||||
| 2 | capture | present | we | the prisoners not said here | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | present | I not said here | prisoners = prisoner | before you | as a sacrifice | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Duration as sacrifice=Attribute |
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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