Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 48

They then armed themselves with bows and arrows, stones, and short heavy throwing sticks sharp at both ends, so that one end or the other would stick into their enemies.

Who acts: people, short heavy throwing, one end · What happens: arm, stick · To what, where: people, enemies

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 (people, short heavy throwing, one end), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 armed	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 armed	advmod
3	armed	arm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 armed	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 bows	case
6	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 armed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 arrows	cc
8	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bows	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stones	punct
10	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bows	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sticks	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sticks	cc
13	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 throwing	amod
14	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 throwing	amod
15	throwing	throwing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sticks	nsubj
16	sticks	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 armed	parataxis
17	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sticks	xcomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 ends	case
19	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	20 ends	det
20	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sharp	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stick	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	_	30 stick	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 end	mark
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 end	nummod
25	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stick	nsubj
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 other	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 other	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 end	conj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 stick	aux
30	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sticks	conj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 enemies	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 enemies	nmod:poss
33	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stick	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 armed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arm	past	people	people		then	with bows and arrows and stones	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient with bow=Theme
2	stick	present	short heavy throwing				sharp property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	stick	would	one end		people's enemies			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into enemy=Destination

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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🌲 Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 48

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 48