Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Ix.--the Story of the War Between Inkum and Enfitop., sentence 67
The chief placed the skulls on the ground of the room where he slept, so that the room was quite paved with them.
Who acts: chief · What happens: place, sleep, pave · To what, where: skulls, ground, room
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chief | det |
| 2 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | nsubj |
| 3 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skulls | det |
| 5 | skulls | skull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 placed | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 room | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 room | det |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ground | nmod |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 slept | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 slept | nsubj |
| 14 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 room | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 paved | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 paved | advmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 paved | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 room | det |
| 19 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 paved | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 paved | aux:pass |
| 21 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 22 paved | advmod |
| 22 | paved | pave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 placed | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 paved | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | the chief | the skulls | the ground of the room | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent skull=Theme on ground=Destination | |||
| 2 | sleep | past | Chief | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pave | past · passive | the room | with heads = head | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with they=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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