Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 54
That very night they held a big play, and the heads of all the men who had been killed were placed before the ju-ju.
Who acts: women · What happens: hold, kill, place · To what, where: big play, men, heads, ju ju
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 (women), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 night | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 night | advmod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 held | nsubj |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 play | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 play | amod |
| 8 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 placed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 placed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 heads | det |
| 12 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 men | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 men | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 men | det |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 heads | nmod |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 killed | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 killed | aux:pass |
| 20 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 men | acl:relcl |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 placed | aux:pass |
| 22 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 held | conj |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 27 ju | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ju | det |
| 25 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ju | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 ju | punct |
| 27 | ju | ju | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 placed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | women = woman | a big play | night | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Theme | |||
| 2 | kill | past · perfect · passive | all men | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | place | past · passive | the heads of all men | the ju ju | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before ju=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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