Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 52

The survivors, including Chief Indoma, who was present at the fighting, escaped into the bush, leaving the women and children and old men at the mercy of the Enfitop people.

Who acts: Chief, survivors · What happens: be, escape, leave · To what, where: fighting, bush, women, mercy

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, survivors), 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	2 survivors	det
2	survivors	survivor	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 escaped	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Chief	punct
4	including	including	ADP	_	5 Chief	case
5	Chief	Chief	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 survivors	nmod
6	Indoma	Indoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Chief	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 present	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 present	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 present	cop
10	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Chief	parataxis
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 fighting	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fighting	det
13	fighting	fighting	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 present	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 survivors	punct
15	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 bush	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bush	det
18	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 escaped	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 leaving	punct
20	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 escaped	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 women	det
22	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 leaving	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 children	cc
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 women	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 men	cc
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 men	amod
27	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 women	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 mercy	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mercy	det
30	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 leaving	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 people	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 people	det
33	Enfitop	Enfitop	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 people	compound
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 mercy	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 escaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Chief		the fighting	present property	tree rules
2	escape	past	the survivors including Chief		the bush		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into bush=Initial_Location
3	leave	gerund	the survivors including Chief not said here	the women and children and old men	the mercy of the Enfitop people		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent woman=Theme at mercy=Location

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 52

The tree

Pragmatics

Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 52