Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 49
The next morning they surrounded the town of Aliese, and very soon the Inkum men came out.
Who acts: Inkum men · What happens: surround, come out · To what, where: next morning
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 (Inkum 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 | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 surrounded | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Aliese | case |
| 9 | Aliese | Aliese | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 town | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 soon | advmod |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 came | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 men | det |
| 15 | Inkum | Inkum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 men | compound |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 surrounded | parataxis |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 surrounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | participle · passive | the next morning | people nsubj:pass; the town of Aliese obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | the Inkum men | out, soon property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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