Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 65
All the heads were then collected and placed over a fire to singe the hair off.
What happens: collect, place, singe off · To what, where: heads, fire, hair
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: 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 heads | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heads | det |
| 3 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 collected | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 collected | aux:pass |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 collected | advmod |
| 6 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 placed | cc |
| 8 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 collected | conj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 fire | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fire | det |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 collected | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 singe | mark |
| 13 | singe | singe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 collected | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hair | det |
| 15 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 singe | obj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 singe | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | past · passive | all heads | a fire | then | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | place | participle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | singe off | to-infinitive | the hair | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hair=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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