Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 46
After this ceremony was over, all the people went to the chief’s compound, where he consulted his head ju-ju man as to what the result of the war with the Inkum people would be.
Who acts: ceremony, people, Chief · What happens: be, go, consult, compound, result · To what, where: compound, ju man, war
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 (ceremony, people, 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 over | mark |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 ceremony | det |
| 3 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 over | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 over | cop |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 10 went | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 over | punct |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 people | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 compound | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chief | det |
| 13 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 compound | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 chief | case |
| 15 | compound | compound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 consulted | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 consulted | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 consulted | nsubj |
| 19 | consulted | consult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 man | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ju | compound |
| 22 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ju | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 ju | punct |
| 24 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 man | compound |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 consulted | obj |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 what | case |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 what | case |
| 28 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 consulted | obl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 result | det |
| 30 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 be | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 war | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 war | det |
| 33 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 result | nmod |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 people | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 people | det |
| 36 | Inkum | Inkum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 people | compound |
| 37 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 war | nmod |
| 38 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 be | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 what | acl:relcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this ceremony | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | all people | the chief's compound | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to compound=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | consult | past | Chief | Chief's ju man | what obl | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent man=Theme as what=Value | |||
| 4 | compound | the chief | nom compound «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | result | the war with the Inkum people | nom result «phenomenon 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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