Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 57
He was then staked securely to the ground, and a heavy wooden drum was placed upon his stomach and was beaten with sticks while the fighters were dancing.
Who acts: fighters · What happens: stake, place, beat, dance · To what, where: dance, heavy wooden drum, stomach
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 (fighters), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 staked | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 staked | aux:pass |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 staked | advmod |
| 4 | staked | stake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 4 staked | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 securely | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 placed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 placed | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 drum | det |
| 12 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 drum | amod |
| 13 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 drum | amod |
| 14 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 placed | aux:pass |
| 16 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 staked | conj |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 stomach | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 19 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 placed | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 beaten | cc |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 beaten | aux:pass |
| 22 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 placed | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 sticks | case |
| 24 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 beaten | obl |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 dancing | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fighters | det |
| 27 | fighters | fighter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 dancing | nsubj |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 dancing | aux |
| 29 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 beaten | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 staked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stake | past · passive | dance | then | securely property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | place | past · passive | a heavy wooden drum | dance's stomach | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon stomach=Destination | ||||
| 3 | beat | past · passive | with sticks | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: with stick=Theme | |||||
| 4 | dance | past · progressive | the fighters | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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