Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 64
The body of the man was then divided up amongst the chiefs, the head chief getting the right arm, shoulder and breast for his share, and the head fighter was given the man’s heart to eat.
Who acts: head chief, man · What happens: divide up, get, give, eat, share · To what, where: body, right arm, head fighter
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 (head chief, man), 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 body | det |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 divided | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 man | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 body | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 divided | aux:pass |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 divided | advmod |
| 8 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 divided | compound:prt |
| 10 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 12 chiefs | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chiefs | det |
| 12 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 divided | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 chief | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chief | det |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chief | compound |
| 16 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 divided | parataxis |
| 17 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 chief | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 arm | det |
| 19 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 arm | amod |
| 20 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 getting | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shoulder | punct |
| 22 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arm | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 breast | cc |
| 24 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arm | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 share | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 share | nmod:poss |
| 27 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 getting | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 given | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 given | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fighter | det |
| 31 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fighter | compound |
| 32 | fighter | fighter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 given | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 given | aux:pass |
| 34 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 divided | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 man | det |
| 36 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 heart | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 man | case |
| 38 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 given | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 eat | mark |
| 40 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 heart | acl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide up | past · passive | the body of the man | then | amongst the chiefs; the head chief parataxis | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | gerund | the head chief not said here | the right arm and shoulder and breast | for man's share | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent arm=Theme for share=Source | |||
| 3 | give | past · passive | the head fighter | the man's heart obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient heart=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | share | man | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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