Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 66
They were then given to the head chief, who boiled and eat the meat off them with his sons and people.
Who acts: head chief · What happens: give, boil, eat · To what, where: heads, head chief, meat
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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 given | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 given | advmod |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 chief | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chief | det |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chief | compound |
| 8 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 boiled | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 boiled | nsubj |
| 11 | boiled | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 chief | acl:relcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 eat | cc |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 meat | det |
| 15 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eat | obj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 eat | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 sons | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sons | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 eat | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 people | cc |
| 22 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sons | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | heads = head | the head chief | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to chief=Recipient | |||
| 2 | boil | past | the head chief | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | eat | present | the meat | off heads = head; with Chief's sons and people | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=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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